Bell argued that the manual approach was backwards, and harkened to a primitive age where humans used gesture and pantomime.

And the judgement of our inclinations and actions (the weightiest and hardest matter that is) we referre it to the idle breath of the vaine voice of the common sort and base raskalitie, which is the mother of ignorance, of injustice and inconstancie.

Are these dishes clean?  Your room is finally clean!

I took breakfast in a little muncheonette three doors down from the cophouse.