{"id":"01KG8AKBBCTVC5DPCEP3KRMCSE","cid":"bafkreifuxf7yxriieew3ueirdxrcxgf6iwn5u4s4ukusvhtzbhqm6hsn5q","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":9953,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.726Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 3","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":9867,"text":"you see a stranger, his face accidentally averted, but his visible part\r\nvery respectable-looking; what now, barber--I put it to your conscience,\r\nto your charity--what would be your impression of that man, in a moral\r\npoint of view? Being in a signal sense a stranger, would you, for that,\r\nsignally set him down for a knave?\"\r\n\r\n\"Certainly not, sir; by no means,\" cried the barber, humanely resentful.\r\n\r\n\"You would upon the face of him----\"\r\n\r\n\"Hold, sir,\" said the barber, \"nothing about the face; you remember,\r\nsir, that is out of sight.\"\r\n\r\n\"I forgot that. Well then, you would, upon the _back_ of him, conclude\r\nhim to be, not improbably, some worthy sort of person; in short, an\r\nhonest man: wouldn't you?\"\r\n\r\n\"Not unlikely I should, sir.\"\r\n\r\n\"Well now--don't be so impatient with your brush, barber--suppose that\r\nhonest man meet you by night in some dark corner of the boat where his\r\nface would still remain unseen, asking you to trust him for a shave--how\r\nthen?\"\r\n\r\n\"Wouldn't trust him, sir.\"\r\n\r\n\"But is not an honest man to be trusted?\"\r\n\r\n\"Why--why--yes, sir.\"\r\n\r\n\"There! don't you see, now?\"\r\n\r\n\"See what?\" asked the disconcerted barber, rather vexedly.\r\n\r\n\"Why, you stand self-contradicted, barber; don't you?\"\r\n\r\n\"No,\" doggedly.\r\n\r\n\"Barber,\" gravely, and after a pause of concern, \"the enemies of our\r\nrace have a saying that insincerity is the most universal and\r\ninveterate vice of man--the lasting bar to real amelioration, whether of\r\nindividuals or of the world. Don't you now, barber, by your stubbornness\r\non this occasion, give color to such a calumny?\"\r\n\r\n\"Hity-tity!\" cried the barber, losing patience, and with it respect;\r\n\"stubbornness?\" Then clattering round the brush in the cup, \"Will you be\r\nshaved, or won't you?\"\r\n\r\n\"Barber, I will be shaved, and with pleasure; but, pray, don't raise\r\nyour voice that way. Why, now, if you go through life gritting your\r\nteeth in that fashion, what a comfortless time you will have.\"\r\n\r\n\"I take as much comfort in this world as you or any other man,\" cried\r\nthe barber, whom the other's sweetness of temper seemed rather to\r\nexasperate than soothe.\r\n\r\n\"To resent the imputation of anything like unhappiness I have often\r\nobserved to be peculiar to certain orders of men,\" said the other\r\npensively, and half to himself, \"just as to be indifferent to that\r\nimputation, from holding happiness but for a secondary good and inferior\r\ngrace, I have observed to be equally peculiar to other kinds of men.\r\nPray, barber,\" innocently looking up, \"which think you is the superior\r\ncreature?\"\r\n\r\n\"All this sort of talk,\" cried the barber, still unmollified, \"is, as I\r\ntold you once before, not in my line. In a few minutes I shall shut up\r\nthis shop. Will you be shaved?\"\r\n\r\n\"Shave away, barber. What hinders?\" turning up his face like a flower.\r\n\r\nThe shaving began, and proceeded in silence, till at length it became\r\nnecessary to prepare to relather a little--affording an opportunity for\r\nresuming the subject, which, on one side, was not let slip.\r\n\r\n\"Barber,\" with a kind of cautious kindliness, feeling his way, \"barber,\r\nnow have a little patience with me; do; trust me, I wish not to offend.\r\nI have been thinking over that supposed case of the man with the averted\r\nface, and I cannot rid my mind of the impression that, by your opposite\r\nreplies to my questions at the time, you showed yourself much of a piece\r\nwith a good many other men--that is, you have confidence, and then\r\nagain, you have none. Now, what I would ask is, do you think it sensible\r\nstanding for a sensible man, one foot on confidence and the other on\r\nsuspicion? Don't you think, barber, that you ought to elect? Don't you\r\nthink consistency requires that you should either say 'I have confidence\r\nin all men,' and take down your notification; or else say, 'I suspect\r\nall men,' and keep it up.\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 3"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJNPWHK63WHT4VHC9C1QT","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKBB5MK4CX4BR1WKRSPH6","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKBB5PK8HQR5NWBK9M63T","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:01.388Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.134Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}