It Bourbonises too much.

It lives in the past, learning nothing and forgetting nothing.
Argument runs off it like rain off a duck's back.

These two types of thought we must leave to the grace of God, and the education of the accomplished fact.

They represent a declining cause, and a decaying party.

The Lodges once mustered more than 200,000 members; they have now less than 10,000.