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The divinity-student could not deny that this was what might be called opening the subject to the discussion of intelligent people. But, he said, the greatest objection is this, that persons who have not made a professional study of theology are not competent to speak on such subjects.
Daniel's dressing-room having been given up to the gentlemen I invited him to make his toilet in mine, and, indeed, wanting him to create a favorable impression, became his valet pro tem., tying his cravat, and teasing the divinity-student look out of his side-hair.
I thank you, Sir, said the Little Gentleman, permit me to ask you, what makes you think I am not ready for it, Sir, and that you can do anything to help me, Sir? I address you only as a fellow-man, said the divinity-student, and therefore a fellow-sinner. I am not a man, Sir! said the Little Gentleman.
When the divinity-student had gone, and the Little Gentleman found himself alone with Iris, he lifted his hand to his neck, and took from it, suspended by a slender chain, a quaint, antique-looking key, the same key I had once seen him holding.
All true, he said, all flowers of his soul; only one with the corolla spread, and another with its disk half opened, and the third with the heart-leaves covered up and only a petal or two showing its tip through the calyx. The water-lily is the type of the poet's soul, he told me. What do you think, Sir, said the divinity-student, opens the souls of poets most fully?
I thank you, Sir, said the Little Gentleman, permit me to ask you, what makes you think I am not ready for it, Sir, and that you can do anything to help me, Sir? I address you only as a fellow-man, said the divinity-student, and therefore a fellow-sinner. I am not a man, Sir! said the Little Gentleman.
So you would abuse other people's beliefs, Sir, and yet not tell us your own creed! said the divinity-student, coloring up with a spirit for which I liked him all the better. I have a creed, I replied; none better, and none shorter. It is told in two words, the two first of the Paternoster. And when I say these words I mean them.
I trust you know, or will learn, a great many things in your profession which we common scholars do not know; but mark this: when the common people of New England stop talking politics and theology, it will be because they have got an Emperor to teach them the one, and a Pope to teach them the other! That was the end of my long conference with the divinity-student.
It was undeniable that on several occasions the Little Gentleman had expressed himself with a good deal of freedom on a class of subjects which, according to the divinity-student, he had no right to form an opinion upon. He therefore considered his future welfare in jeopardy. The Muggletonian sect have a very odd way of dealing with people.
The divinity-student was not quite up to the idea of the commonwealth, as our young friend the Marylander, for instance, understood it. He could not get rid of that notion of private property in truth, with the right to fence it in, and put up a sign-board, thus: ALL TRESPASSERS ARE WARNED OFF THESE GROUNDS!
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