"Freethought _has_ the upper hand in France." "Yes," he replied, "but that is an infidel country.

It will never be so here." "But suppose," I continued, "it _were_ so here, and we imprisoned you for deriding our opinions as you imprison us for deriding yours.

Would you not say you were persecuted ?" "Oh," he said, "that's a different thing." Mr.Bradlaugh was then mentioned.
"By the way, you're remarkably like him," said the chaplain.
I thought it a brilliant discovery, and still more so when I learned, a few minutes later, that he had not seen Mr.Bradlaugh for thirty years.
Darwin was referred to next.
"I suppose you know he's been disproved," said the chaplain, complacently.
"No, I don't," I answered; "nor do I quite understand what you mean.
_What_ has been disproved ?" "Why," he said, "I mean that man isn't a monkey." "Indeed!" I rejoined; "I am not aware that Darwin ever said that man _is_ a monkey.

Nor do I think so myself--except in some extreme cases." Whether this was construed as a personality or not I am unable to decide, but our interview soon terminated.

Parson Plaford called on me two or three times during the next few weeks, promised me some good books to read as soon as the regulations permitted, and fulfilled his promise by never visiting me again.
Mr.Ramsey was nursed a little longer.