Each inventor, when he relates his grievances, brings a witness to maintain his claim.

There is no doubt that, after a while, there will be those who can testify to the fact of having seen the idea as it passed through the inventor's mind.

The way it is settled at present is this--whoever can pay the most for the best lawyer comes off triumphantly! Poor George is not the only smart fellow in the world outdone by somebody better off than himself.
George positively refuses to hear the Bible quoted.

He believes in a higher law, no doubt, Frederic Douglas being editorial expounder; a sort of Moses of this century, a little less meek, though, than the one who instructed the Israelites.

George won't hear the Bible; he prefers, he says, appealing to the Almighty himself.