He blames me for encouraging his son in what he calls his 'iconoclastic' notions." Ida, who was becoming interested, smiled.
"After all," she said, "the comparison isn't very unfavorable to the son.

I believe the original iconoclasts were the image-breakers in Byzantium." "Were they?
I didn't know it," said Ainslie.

"It's a moral certainty that Weston didn't, either.

In fact, I've no doubt he fancies that Darwin and Bradlaugh, and he'd certainly include Cobden, invented them.

Anyway, the lad wasn't very much of an iconoclast.