Note 999 — BOOK V. BIOGRAPHY.

Otter’s son-in-law. “Hal” in his childhood was asked what he would have done if, like the Good Samaritan, he had found a man half dead by the roadside; he answered (on the analogy of flies), “I should have killed him outright.” Contrast the child’s answer with his father’s remarks on the same parable in Essay, IV. xi. 447.