ORIGIN AND NATURE OP THE INQUIRY. 3 



organisations different in skin and hair and skeleton, 

 and surely different also in brain and nerve. In the 

 smaller and more impassioned class the spine was 

 straighter, the head and neck and shoulders were held 

 upwards and backwards ; the hair-growth was abun- 

 dant and the eyebrows marked. 



Mr. Ruskin, in a few paragraphs of remarkable 

 interest, declares that bishops should watch rather 

 than rule; that their place is at the mast-head not 

 at the helm. A bishop, he says, not only ought to 

 know everybody in his diocese, he ought also to know 

 why Bill and Nancy knock each other's teeth out. In 

 strict truth bishops are not trained to understand Bill 

 and Nancy, and for eighteen centuries they have done 

 but little for them. Bill and Nancy are what they are 

 chiefly from organisation and inheritance, and in great 

 measure also, no doubt, from circumstance. When 

 fully matured, however, a body-guard of bishops could 

 not keep them straight, especially Bill, who is usually, 

 and on physiological grounds, the greater sinner. 

 Bill and Nancy will do better when we come to see 

 that the improvement of educational, social, and moral 

 methods have more to do with physiologists than with 

 bishops. 



Although there are features of character which make 

 for riches or for poverty, and notwithstanding also that 

 riches and poverty tell on character, yet there is no 

 one feature which is confined to the poor or to the 

 well-to-do. The unimpassioned tradeswoman who 

 entreats a magistrate to protect her from a brutal 

 husband, and the delicately born but erring (impas- 

 sioned) lady who is. summoned to the Divorce Court 

 resemble in organisation and proclivity their humbler 

 sisters who are brought into hospitals with bruised 

 bodies or with fatal wounds. 



