LITTLE Tyndall, Arthur Wellesley and all the other Irish 

 JOURNEYS poets, orators and thinkers who have made us vibrate 

 with our kind. 



Transplanted weeds produce our finest flowers. 

 The parents of Tyndall were intent on giving their 

 boy an education. And to them, committing things to 

 memory was education. "William Tyndale gave the 

 Bible to the people; John Tyndale would force it upon 

 them. The book of Martyrs, the sermons of Jeremy 

 Taylor and the Bible, little John came to know by heart. 

 And he grew to have a fine distaste for all. Once, when 

 nearly a man grown, he had the temerity to argue 

 with his father that the Bible might be better appre- 

 ciated, if a penalty were not placed upon disbelief in 

 its divine origin. A cuff on the ear was the answer, 

 and John was given until sundown to apologize. 

 He did not apologize. 



And young Tyndale then vowed he would change his 

 name to Tyndall and forever separate himself from a 

 person whose religion was so largely mixed with 

 brutality. But yet John Tyndale was not a bad man. 

 He had intellect far above the average of his neigh- 

 bors. He had the courage of his convictions. His son 

 had the courage of his lack of convictions. 

 And the early drilling in the Bible was a good thing 

 for young Tyndall. Bible legend and allusion color the 

 English language, and any man who does not know 

 his Bible well, can never hope to speak or write Eng- 

 lish with grace and fluency. Tyndall always knew 

 and acknowledged his indebtedness to his parents' 

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