National Church, National spirit, National politics--Irish Church, Irish nation, Irish ideas.

They all go excellently together, don't they?
And yet the facts are as I state them.

A Nationalist clergyman in the Church of Ireland would be just as impossible as an English Nonconformist in the Court of Louis Quatorze.

After all, in this life one has got to steer one's course among facts, and they're sharp things which knock holes in the man who disregards them.

Now, what I propose to you is this: Put off your ordination for three years or so.