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Heard, save in so far as it indicates
strata and faults and other geological points. The picturesque don't
interest me. I am full of Old Testamentary strains; I can't help
looking at men from the ethical point of view. And what have people's
clothes to do with their religion? He can't help his face, you say.
Well, if he can't help that greasy old mackintosh, I'll eat my hat.
Can't a fellow be a Messiah without sporting a pink shirt or fancy
dressing-gown or blue pyjamas or something? But there you are! I defy
you to name me a single-barrelled crank. If a man is a religious
lunatic, or a vegetarian, he is sure to be touched in some other
department as well; he will be an anti-vivisectionist, a nutfooder,
costume-maniac, stamp-collector, or a spiritualist into the bargain.
Haven't you ever noticed that? And isn't he dirty? Where is the
connection between piety and dirt? I suggest they are both relapses
into ancestral channels and the one drags the other along with it. When
I see a thing like this, I want to hew it in pieces.


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