"I lay 'em out here and go over 'em inch by inch.

I find all the weak spots, both those that are crying out and those worse ones that don't.

I never ask a man what's the matter; I tell him.

And my patients, and all the fools in this town, think I'm in league with the devil.

A doctor who finds out what's the matter with a man Providence is trying to lay in the grave--what can it be but the devil ?" He had reached his subject; as he worked he talked it--religion, its folly, its silliness, its cruelty, its ignorance, its viciousness.