Note 4 — Chapter IX · PSYCHO-PHYSICAL AND TEMPERAMENTAL QUESTIONS
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I have already traced the steps in the growth of this legend. It is no doubt this element in the biography which irritated John Wesley, the man of absolute judgments; although he himself, with shrewd good sense, indicates its possible secondary origin. “I am sure this was a fool of a Saint; that is, if it was not the folly of her historian, who has aggrandized her into a mere idiot” (Journal, ed. P. L. Parker, London, 1903).