How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says — ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.
Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
