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His reasons for so doing may be, I think, gathered from the conversation towards the end of this chapter. Well, we went; and I, for my part, was charmed with Mr. Windrush's eloquence. His style, which was altogether Emersonian, quite astonished me by its alternate bursts of what I considered brilliant declamation, and of forcible epigrammatic antithesis.
We could not agree to all this, but we made a rule of never contradicting the old sage in one of his excited moods, for fear of bringing on a week's silent fit a state which generally ended in his smoking himself into a bilious melancholy; but I made up my mind to be henceforth a frequent auditor of Mr. Windrush's oratory.
"Then I say you will not find that in Professor Windrush's school. I say you will find it in Lady Jane's Creed." "What? In the very Creed which excludes me?" "Whether that Creed excludes you or not is a question of the true meaning of its words. And that again is a question of Dialectics. I say it includes you and all mankind." "You must mistake her doctrines, then." "I do not, I assure you.
Windrush's; would not that be a fair cause for interdiction from fire and water, sacraments and Christian burial?" "Come, come, Templeton," I said; "you shall not thus jest away serious thoughts with an old friend. I know you are ill at ease. Why not talk over the matter with me fairly and soberly? How do you know till you have tried, whether I can help you or not?"
Windrush's praises one into each of Mackaye's ears. The old man, however, paced on silent and meditative. At last "A hunder sects or so in the land o' Gret Britain; an' a hunder or so single preachers, each man a sect of his ain! an' this the last fashion! Last, indeed! The moon of Calvinism's far gone in the fourth quarter, when it's come to the like o' that.
Windrush's school been, that they will not do this; that they will not accept the ground which is common to men as men, but disregard that part of the 'Vox Populi' which is truly 'Vox Dei, for that which is 'Vox Diaboli'-for private sentiments, fancies, and aspirations; and so casting away the common sense of mankind, build up each man, on the pin's point of his own private judgment, his own inverted pyramid?"
Windrush's school-though they are at all events right in saying that its source is in man himself, and not in the 'regionibus Coeli'-are now glorifying, as something which enables man to save his own soul without the interference of 'The Deity'-indeed, whether 'The Deity' chooses or not."
"You were ripe indeed then," said I sadly, "like hundreds more, for Professor Windrush's teaching." "I will come to that presently. But in the meantime-was it my fault? I was never what you call a devout person. My 'organ of veneration, as the phrenologists would say, was never very large.
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