Spirit of Kant! have we not had enough / To make Religion sad, and sour, and snubbish, / But Saints Zoological must cant their stuff, / As vessels cant their ballast — rattling rubbish!

Close to the cliff with both his hands he clung And stuck adherent, and suspended hung.

subcelestial glories

My old friend Geoffrey Milburn in the days of his service to Sunderland Poly was inveigled by David Jeremy into one of them, producing a useful paper on Methodist business men in the North-East, which included an equally useful biographical appendix. This attempt to Namierise a regional class of Methodist business-men shows principally two things.