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Obstinate, Mr. Facing-both-ways, Mr. Feeble Mind, and all the rest? They are representative realities, flesh of our flesh and bone of our bone. 'If we prick them they bleed, if we tickle them they laugh, or they make us laugh. 'They are warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer' as we are.
He was like those gentlemen in the Pilgrim's Progress whom Bunyan names Mr Facing-both-ways and Mr Pliable. It depended very much on the company he was in, whether he showed a religious face or assumed the other character. We have an illustration of this doubleness in the incident recorded here.
BY-ENDS. Yes, I will assure you that it is; and I have very many rich kindred there. CHR. Pray, who are your kindred there? if a man may be so bold. Smooth-man, Mr. Facing-both-ways, Mr. Any-thing; and the parson of our parish, Mr.
A nation which revises its parish councils once in three years, but will not revise its articles of religion once in three hundred, even when those articles avowedly began as a political compromise dictated by Mr Facing-Both-Ways, is a nation that needs remaking. Our only hope, then, is in evolution. We must replace the man by the superman.
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