Here am I confessing to you all my unorthodoxy." "And I my ignorance," said Frank; "for I really believe you know more about the matter than I do." "Not at all.

I may be all wrong.

But the fault of your cloth seems to me to be that they apply their medicines without deigning, most of them, to take the least diagnosis of the case.

How could I cure a man without first examining what was the matter with him ?" "So say the old casuists, of whom I have read enough--some would say too much; but they do not satisfy me.

They deal with actions, and motives, and so forth; but they do not go down to the one root of wrong which is the same in every man." "You are getting beyond me: but why do you not apply a little of the worldly wisdom which these same casuists taught you ?" "To tell you the truth, I have tried in past years, and found that the medicine would not act." "Humph! Well, that would depend, again, on the previous diagnosis of human nature being correct; and those old monks, I should say, would know about as much of human nature as so many daws in a steeple.
Still, you wouldn't say that what was the matter with old Heale was the matter also with Vavasour ?" "I believe from my heart that it is." "Humph! Then you know the symptoms of his complaint ?" "I know that he never comes to church." "Nothing more?
I am really speaking in confidence.