Note 22 — Chapter XI

I hardly like to speak of the feeble creation of Robert Buchanan in such a company, but his ‘New Abélard’ is a further illustration. His pitiful Mr. Bradley has no earthly resemblance to Abélard, except in a most superficial sense. It is grotesque to compare him to Abélard for his ‘heresy’; and to say that he recalls Abélard in his weakness (to the extent of bigamously marrying and blasting the life of a noble woman) is deeply unjust. Abélard was not a cad.