That figure does _not_ represent St.Augustine.It is meant for an allegorical picture of Brute Force, and it has its foot upon Intellect--_Intellect_, mind you! and _not_ a cigar-store Indian.

It is a likeness of Captain Kidd, and I set it back to represent the fact that Brute Force belonged to the Dark Ages.

How on earth that man of yours ever got an idea that it was St.Augustine beats me." "It is singular," said the major.
"And now let me direct your attention to another paragraph.

He says, "'We were astonished to notice that while Noah's ark goes sailing in the remote distance, there is close to it a cotton-factory, the chimney of which is pouring out white smoke that covers the whole of the sky in the picture, while the ark seems to be trying to sail down that chimney.

Now, they didn't have cotton-factories in those days; the thing don't hang.