Belligerent by nature, it was well for their professional character that they had, as clergymen, sufficient scope for the exercise of their warlike propensities.

Mr.Bronte, with all his warm regard for Church and State, had a great respect for mental freedom; and, though he was the last man in the world to conceal his opinions, he lived in perfect amity with all the respectable part of those who differed from him.

Not so the curates.
Dissent was schism, and schism was condemned in the Bible.

In default of turbaned Saracens, they entered on a crusade against Methodists in broadcloth; and the consequence was that the Methodists and Baptists refused to pay the church-rates.

Miss Bronte thus describes the state of things at this time:-- "Little Haworth has been all in a bustle about church-rates, since you were here.