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"That's put rather sentimentally, isn't it, Professor?" 

 inquired Benson; " but if you get right down to hard pan, 

 and say that a man's a man, no matter what sort of clothes 

 he happens to have on or who's watching him, or where lie 

 happens to be, I just agree with you. And if he is only a 

 veneered man at home, the veneer'll come olT up here and 

 he'll In- whatever he is. may-be a heathen." 



"You can paint and rig an old ship that's \\orm eaten 

 and rotten," added the. old sailor, " and it looks about as 

 well as a hran'-new craft with every plank and timber in 

 her as sound as a bell; but the long, lonely \o\anv fclU t.n 

 her, and the storm don't care for the paint, she's pretty 

 sure to go to wreck. That's the way I suspect it is with 

 your ' veneered ' men." 



" The man who yields obedience to law," and the Ne. 

 phyte took a hand in the dix-i.ur^e.- "simply because of its 

 sanctions and penalties, or because it is respectable to be 

 law-abiding, is not law-abiding at all, he's simply la\\ fear 

 ing or dishonor-fearing. He's the sort of man that breaks 

 down suddenly and to the astonishment of every body, 

 w r hen he moves to a new country, loses the influence of 

 old and restraining associations, and simply becomes his 

 natural self. Your genuine man obeys law moral as well 

 as civil, civil as well as moral because it is right to do so. 

 Indeed, I don't think a man makes a very good Christian 

 who joins the church to keep out of hell, takes out a 

 spiritual tire-insurance policy and calls it being religious 

 on principle. It isn't, it's being religious on policy." 



"But do not you lawyers rind that it is the lower motive, 



