Note 334 — Chapter II · INSTITUTIONS

Ibid., 157. Cf. Kingsley’s statement that the working men distrust the clergy. In The Way of All Flesh, Butler observes, “A clergyman, again, can hardly ever allow himself to look facts fairly in the face.” 103. Cf. also his Note Books, “In a way the preachers believe what they preach, but it is as men who have taken a bad ten pound note and refuse to look at the evidence that makes for its badness, though, if the note were not theirs, they would see at a glance that it was not a good one.” 190.