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Rh right uses. Thou hes only to look at Tim Sharp and Bob Linker to find out that a little learning is a varry dangerous thing."

"There ought to be something taken on trust for t' working man of t' future."

"Not there. We take men as we find 'em, Ben, and not as they are to be. T' world is an infidel world; it can be made to see, but it can't be made to trust I know what t' workingman is, and I wouldn't lend a sixpence on what he is going to be. If t' grace of Jesus Christ isn't enough to lift him up, I think all t' science and philosophy they can put into him will only make a bigger failure of him. People nowadays talk of t' sciences they hev invented, as if they thought they would take 'em to heaven; but I'm cheating this hour out of its lawful work talking to thee; and, after all, t' art o' living is t' main thing. If we could only, rich and poor, manage to master that study, it would be t' greatest thing as could be."

It was on the night following this conversation that Jonathan met Sarah after her late watch with Granny Oddy. A less romantic walk than that through the dark, muddy street could scarcely be imagined, and yet never had