[330] _Alton Locke_, 229–30. Cf. 205ff. for an equally forceful presentation of the other side through the eloquent rebuke to illogical complaints, given by Eleanor Staunton. It is in _Yeast_ that Papacy is satirized, a typical hit being the unconscious irony of Vieuxbois’ assertion,--“I do not think that we have any right in the nineteenth century to contest an opinion which the fathers of the Church gave in the fourth.” 114. Alton Locke also says,--“A man-servant, a soldier and a Jesuit, are to me the three great wonders of humanity--three forms of moral suicide, for which I never had the slightest gleam of sympathy, or even comprehension.” 187. [331] _Beauchamp’s Career_, 622. [332] _Erewhon_, 151. [333] _Ibid._, 155. [334] _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. [335] _Erewhon Revisited_, 39–40. Panky, who wore his Sunchild suit backward, as a matter of dogma, is supposed to represent the Anglican, and Hanky the Jesuit. The broad church is represented by the far superior Dr. Downie. Butler’s positive philosophy is expressed, though still in the indirect manner, in the account of Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites: _Erewhon_, Chap. XVII. [336] In _The Duke’s Children_. Cf. _The Small House at Allington_, 498, for remarks on inadequate parents. Perhaps Meredith’s picture in lighter tones, of Harry Richmond and his irresponsible but aspiring father, might be mentioned. [337] _Way of All Flesh_, 98. [338] _Ibid._, 125. [339] By J. L. Hughes, in _Dickens as an Educator_. [340] _Dombey and Son_, II, 313. [341] _David Copperfield_, I, 92. [342] Cf. the beginning of same chapter for the school system generally. [343] _Crochet Castle_, 115. [344] _Ibid._, 32. [345] _Pelham_, 13. Cf. his _Kenelm Chillingly_ for a discussion between Uncle John, the idealistic vicar and Mivers, the utilitarian man of the world, as to educational values. The latter believes the parson’s rêgime would produce “either a pigeon or a ring-dove, a credulous booby or a sentimental milk-sop.” The former makes a thoughtful distinction between the public school, which ripens talent but stifles genius, and the private, which is too enervating, making of the boys either prigs or sissies. It is Mivers who advocates adapting the style of education to the disposition of the individual; and insuring development by putting the youthful mind in contact with the most original and innovating thinkers of the day.