I don't say all: I've heard good sermons, and met sound-headed clergymen--not like that gaping Hampton-Evey, when a woman tells him she thinks for herself.

We have him sitting on our pariah.

A free-thinker startles him as a kind of demon; but a female free-thinker is one of Satan's concubines.

He took it upon himself to reproach me--flung his glove at my feet, because I sent a cheque to a poor man punished for blasphemy.

The man had the right to his opinions, and he had the courage of his opinions.