Note 8 — UNCLE TOM’S CABIN.
Reading edition
“Her theological tenets were all made up, labelled in the most positive and distinct forms, and put by, like the bundles in her patch trunk; there were just so many of them, and there were never to be any more. Underlaying all, deeper than anything else, higher and broader, lay the strongest principle of her being—conscientiousness. Nowhere is conscience so dominant and all-absorbing as with New England women.” [Bless them!] “It is the granite formation which lies deepest, and rises out, even to the tops of the highest mountains.” This last we suspect to be a touch of her relative—The “Professor!”