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10 I have always held a profound reverence for the “Fathers of our Sette,” and felt that I was in duty bound not altogether to ignore what had fallen from their lips; I therefore set to work to think in what way I could carry out the spirit of their remarks. In his statement, Bro. Wyman forgot that abler men than myself had already dealt with the subject in such a way that it would have been superfluous, not to say impertinent, for me to attempt to handle it after them; there were likewise other and more cogent reasons why I should not do so.

I began to think with Falstaff,—

For Bro. Quaritch’s remarks, although only made suggestively, seemed to me almost to amount to a command, coming as they did from the Imperial Cæsar of the Sette. I knew he held strong views (and I uphold him in