ans an instant necessity to cultivate bad temper."

He picked up his volume from the table and walked off with it to the
window-seat.

"You are learning bad temper from a book?" asked Mr. Simeon, taking
off his spectacles and following Brother Copas with mild eyes of
wonder.

"Certainly. . . . If ever fortune, my good sir, should bring you
(which God forbid!) to end your days in our College of Noble Poverty,
you will understand the counsel given by the pilot to Pantagruel and
his fellow-voyagers--that considering the gentleness of the breeze
and the calm of the current, as also that they stood neither in hope
of much good nor in fear of much harm, he advised them to let the
ship drive, nor busy themselves with anything but making good cheer.
I have done with all worldly fear and ambition; and therefore in
working up a hearty Protestant rage (to which a hasty promise commits
me), I can only tackle my passion on the intellectual side.
Those fellows down at the Club are no help to me at all. . . . My
book? It is the last volume of Mr. Froude's famous _History of
England_. Here's a passage now--

"'The method of Episcopal appointments, instituted by Henry VIII,
as a temporary expedient, and abolished under Edward as an
unreality, was re-established by Elizabeth, not certainly
because she believed that the invocation of the Holy Ghost was
required for the completeness of an election which her own
choice had already determined, not because the bishops obtained
any gifts or graces in their consecration which she herself
respected, but because the shadowy form of an election, with a
religious ceremony following it, gave them the semblance of
spiritual independence, the semblance without the substance,
which qualified them to be the instruments of the system which
she desired to enforce. They were tempted to presume on their
phantom dignity, till a sword of a second Cromwell taught them
the true value of their Apostolic descent. . . .

"That's pretty well calculated to annoy, eh? Also, by the way, in
its careless rapture it twice misrelates the relative pronoun; and
Froude was a master of style. Or what do you say to this?--

"'But neither Elizabeth nor later politicians of Elizabeth's
temperament desired the Church of England to become too genuine.
It has been more convenient to leave an element of unsoundness
at the heart of an