Mr.Slope's ideas of sacerdotal rule are of quite a different class.

He cares nothing, one way or the other, for the Queen's supremacy; these to his ears are empty words, meaning nothing.

Forms he regards but little, and such titular expressions as supremacy, consecration, ordination, and the like convey of themselves no significance to him.

Let him be supreme who can.
The temporal king, judge, or gaoler can work but on the body.

The spiritual master, if he have the necessary gifts and can duly use them, has a wider field of empire.