I have not heard your advice what to do if John's advice is not to be taken." Mr.Mivers hesitated.

He seemed puzzled.
"The fact is," said the Parson, "that Mivers got up 'The Londoner' upon a principle that regulates his own mind,--find fault with the way everything is done, but never commit yourself by saying how anything can be done better." "That is true," said Mivers, candidly.

"The destructive order of mind is seldom allied to the constructive.

I and 'The Londoner' are destructive by nature and by policy.

We can reduce a building into rubbish, but we don't profess to turn rubbish into a building.