Travels in Europe and America . hs chance. The Scotchman in the hotelhad told me that his strongest line of attack was tocatechise his opponent. So at once he asked me,* What do you mean by the word * defective ? Immediately I answered, ** Mr. Bradlaugh, selectyour own definition of the word; go ahead andgive an answer. Had I used the word *sinner,he might have asked me what I meant by sinnerand soon put me in deep theological waters. Hetalked loud and long, but he neither answered thequestion nor satisfied the much excited I again mounted my chair, and said, Everybody is wi
Travels in Europe and America . hs chance. The Scotchman in the hotelhad told me that his strongest line of attack was tocatechise his opponent. So at once he asked me,* What do you mean by the word * defective ? Immediately I answered, ** Mr. Bradlaugh, selectyour own definition of the word; go ahead andgive an answer. Had I used the word *sinner,he might have asked me what I meant by sinnerand soon put me in deep theological waters. Hetalked loud and long, but he neither answered thequestion nor satisfied the much excited I again mounted my chair, and said, Everybody is witness to the rude treatment giventhe slender and pale lad. The Saviour would havegently led the inquiring boy into the light, but notso with Mr. Bradlaugh. He demanded emphati-cally of the innocent lad a Yes or No. The audi-ence for a time drowned my voice with Hear !Hear! I now imitated Bradlaughs tone of voiceused with the boy; Come, Mr. Bradlaugh,the question is still unanswered, and I demand WORDSWORTHS HOME AT RYDAL GRASMERE CHURCH, THE SITE OF WORDSWORTHS GRAVE. TRAVELS. 153 emphatically a Yes, or No. He got angry, usingboth his tongue and arms, windmill style, and said,*No. Then I said : State the book which has,for our question is still unanswered. Plad heanswered Shakespeare, I was forearmed with abook, found in an old London bookstall, whichquoted scores of pages from Shakespeare, and onopposite pages the Bible verses which had aided thegreat poet. But the big agnostic again swung hisarms and brought his fist down on the table (for-getting the meeting had a chairman), shouting, Ideclare this debate and meeting closed. A howl ofdisapproval went up from lusty English morning Birmingham papers had long racyaccounts of How the Young American WorstedBradlaugh. Our success perhaps lay in the factthat we confined ourselves to one carefully wordedquestion, and demanded an answer. CHAPTER IX. En route to Berlin. Rotterdam and the Hague. Whencethe Pilgrims.
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