I 80 love's meinie. 



and again, he opposes the holiness of men, — in 

 the sense of " Holy — harmless, undefiled," and 

 more than that, helpful or healthful in action 

 — to the harmful and filthy action of temporary 

 meddlers, such as the hanging of seventeen 

 priests before breakfast, and our profitable 

 military successes, in such a prolonged piece 

 of 'temporary meddling' as the Crimean 

 war. 



134. But, secondly, if you look down John- 

 son's column, you will find his last quotation 

 is not in the higher or figurative, but the 

 lower and literal sense, from Swift, to the 

 effect that " it would be convenient to prevent 

 the excess of drink, with that scurvy custom 

 of taking tobacco." And you will also find, 

 if you ever have the sense or courage to look 

 the facts of modern history in the face, that 

 those two itches, for the pot and the pipe, 

 have been the roots of every other demoraliza- 

 tion of the filthiest and literally ' scurviest ' 

 sort among a// classes ; — the dirty pack of 

 cards; the church pavement running with 

 human saliva, — (I have seen the spittings in 

 ponds half an inch deep, in the choir of 

 Rouen cathedral); and the entirely infernal 



