{"id":"01KG8AKDA4X0EVW621YTM13G3T","cid":"bafkreihwgxlx2lk7eppj2wkzjjgd6qw2jiqwp26rdyhujkcxmoqjc4jgha","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":5721,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.722Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 9","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":5652,"text":"\"Oh well, sir, whoever talks in that strain, whoever has no confidence\r\nin human reason, whoever despises human reason, in vain to reason with\r\nhim. Still, respected sir,\" altering his air, \"permit me to hint that,\r\nhad not the force of analogy moved you somewhat, you would hardly have\r\noffered to contemn it.\"\r\n\r\n\"Talk away,\" disdainfully; \"but pray tell me what has that last analogy\r\nof yours to do with your intelligence office business?\"\r\n\r\n\"Everything to do with it, respected sir. From that analogy we derive\r\nthe reply made to such a patron as, shortly after being supplied by us\r\nwith an adult servant, proposes to return him upon our hands; not that,\r\nwhile with the patron, said adult has given any cause of\r\ndissatisfaction, but the patron has just chanced to hear something\r\nunfavorable concerning him from some gentleman who employed said adult,\r\nlong before, while a boy. To which too fastidious patron, we, taking\r\nsaid adult by the hand, and graciously reintroducing him to the patron,\r\nsay: 'Far be it from you, madam, or sir, to proceed in your censure\r\nagainst this adult, in anything of the spirit of an ex-post-facto law.\r\nMadam, or sir, would you visit upon the butterfly the caterpillar? In\r\nthe natural advance of all creatures, do they not bury themselves over\r\nand over again in the endless resurrection of better and better? Madam,\r\nor sir, take back this adult; he may have been a caterpillar, but is now\r\na butterfly.\"\r\n\r\n\"Pun away; but even accepting your analogical pun, what does it amount\r\nto? Was the caterpillar one creature, and is the butterfly another? The\r\nbutterfly is the caterpillar in a gaudy cloak; stripped of which, there\r\nlies the impostor's long spindle of a body, pretty much worm-shaped as\r\nbefore.\"\r\n\r\n\"You reject the analogy. To the facts then. You deny that a youth of one\r\ncharacter can be transformed into a man of an opposite character. Now\r\nthen--yes, I have it. There's the founder of La Trappe, and Ignatius\r\nLoyola; in boyhood, and someway into manhood, both devil-may-care\r\nbloods, and yet, in the end, the wonders of the world for anchoritish\r\nself-command. These two examples, by-the-way, we cite to such patrons as\r\nwould hastily return rakish young waiters upon us. 'Madam, or\r\nsir--patience; patience,' we say; 'good madam, or sir, would you\r\ndischarge forth your cask of good wine, because, while working, it riles\r\nmore or less? Then discharge not forth this young waiter; the good in\r\nhim is working.' 'But he is a sad rake.' 'Therein is his promise; the\r\nrake being crude material for the saint.'\"\r\n\r\n\"Ah, you are a talking man--what I call a wordy man. You talk, talk.\"\r\n\r\n\"And with submission, sir, what is the greatest judge, bishop or\r\nprophet, but a talking man? He talks, talks. It is the peculiar vocation\r\nof a teacher to talk. What's wisdom itself but table-talk? The best\r\nwisdom in this world, and the last spoken by its teacher, did it not\r\nliterally and truly come in the form of table-talk?\"\r\n\r\n\"You, you, you!\" rattling down his rifle.\r\n\r\n\"To shift the subject, since we cannot agree. Pray, what is your\r\nopinion, respected sir, of St. Augustine?\"\r\n\r\n\"St. Augustine? What should I, or you either, know of him? Seems to me,\r\nfor one in such a business, to say nothing of such a coat, that though\r\nyou don't know a great deal, indeed, yet you know a good deal more than\r\nyou ought to know, or than you have a right to know, or than it is safe\r\nor expedient for you to know, or than, in the fair course of life, you\r\ncould have honestly come to know. I am of opinion you should be served\r\nlike a Jew in the middle ages with his gold; this knowledge of yours,\r\nwhich you haven't enough knowledge to know how to make a right use of,\r\nit should be taken from you. And so I have been thinking all along.\"\r\n\r\n\"You are merry, sir. But you have a little looked into St. Augustine I\r\nsuppose.\"\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 9"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJM4RS4GSX8JEXTB47AGF","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKDA4SPS0E35PWDMNCNK6","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKDA41H1G37GNHX9QMS64","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:03.396Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:14.524Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}