the case of other people, and to see, as Butler says, that we differ as much from other people as they differ from us.  And it is by far the noblest use of the imagination, far nobler than carving a Laocoon, or painting a Last Judgment, or writing a “Paradiso” or a “Paradise Lost,” to put ourselves into the places of other men so as to see with their eyes, and feel with their hearts, and sympathise with their principles, and even with their prejudices.  Now, the inconsiderate man has so little imagination and so little love that he is sitting here and does not know what I am saying; and what suspicion he has of what I am saying is just enough to make him dislike both me and what I am saying too.  But his dull suspicion and his blind dislike are more than made up for by the love and appreciation of those lovers and defenders of the truth who painfully feel how wild and inconsiderate, how hot-headed, how thoughtless, and how reckless their past service even of God’s truth has been.

   “The King is full of grace and fair regard. 
   Consideration, like an angel, came
   And whipp’d the offending Adam out of him.”

4.  And as to Pragmatic, I would not call you a stupid person even though you confided to me that you had never heard this footpad’s name till to-night.  John Bunyan has been borrowing Latin again, and not to the improvement of his style, or to the advantage of his readers.  It would be insufferably pragmatic in me to begin to set John Bunyan right in his English; but I had rather offend the shades of a hundred John Bunyans than leave my most unlettered hearer without his full and proper Sabbath-night lesson.  The third armed thief, then, that fell upon Valiant was, under other names, Impertinence, Meddlesomeness, Officiousness, Over-Interference.  Pragmatic,—­by whatever name he calls himself, there is no mistaking him.  He is never satisfied.  He is never pleased.  He is never thankful.  He is always setting his superiors right.  He is like the Psalmist in one thing, he has more understanding than all his teachers.  And he enjoys nothing more than in letting them know that.  There is nothing he will not correct you in—­from cutting for the stone to commanding the Channel Fleet.  Now, if all that has put any visual image of Pragmatic into your mind, you will see at once what an enemy he too is fitted to be to the truth.  For the truth does not stand in points, but in principles.  The truth does not dwell in the letter but in the spirit.  The truth is not served by setting other people right, but by seeing every day and in every thing how far wrong we are ourselves.  The truth is like charity in this, that it begins at home.  It is like charity in this also, that it never behaves itself unseemly.  A pragmatical man, taken along with an inconsiderate man, and then a wild-headed man added on to them, are three about as fatal hands as any truth could fall into.  The worst enemy of the truth must pity the truth, and feel his hatred at the truth relenting, when he sees her under the championship of Wildhead, Inconsiderate, and Pragmatic.