PREFACE.

CRITIC.—I never read a more improbable story in my life.

AUTHOR.—Notwithstanding, it may be true.


CONTENTS


[ PREFACE. ]


[ PART I. WHAT GINX DID WITH HIM. ]

[ I.—Ab initio. ]

[ II.—Home, sweet Home! ]

[ III.—Work and Ideas. ]

[ IV.—Digressive, and may be skipped without mutilating the History. ]

[ V.—Reasons and Resolves. ]

[ VI.—The Antagonism of Law and Necessity. ]

[ VII.—Malthus and Man. ]

[ VIII.—The Baby's First Translation. ]


[ PART II. WHAT CHARITY AND THE CHURCHES DID WITH HIM. ]

[ I.—The Milk of Human Kindness, Mother's Milk, and the Milk of the Word. ]

[ II.—The Protestant Detectoral Association. ]

[ III.—The Sacrament of Baptism. ]

[ IV.—Law on Behalf of Gospel. ]

[ V.—Magistrate's Law. ]

[ VI—Popery and Protestantism in the Queen's Bench. ]

[ VII.—A Protestor, but not a Protestant. ]

[ VIII.—“See how these Christians love one another.” ]

[ IX.—Good Samaritans, and Good-Samaritan Twopences. ]

[ X.—The Force—and a Specimen of its Weakness. ]

[ XI.—The Unity of the Spirit and the Bond of Peace. ]

[ XII.—No Funds—no Faith, no Works. ]

[ XIII.—In transitu. ]


[ PART III. WHAT THE PARISH DID WITH HIM. ]

[ I.—Parochial Knots—to be untied without prejudice. ]

[ II.—A Board of Guardians. ]

[ III.—“The World is my Parish.” ]

[ IV.—Without prejudice to any one but the Guardians. ]

[ V.—An Ungodly Jungle. ]

[ VI.—Parochial Benevolence—and another translation. ]


[ PART IV. WHAT THE CLUBS AND POLITICIANS DID WITH HIM. ]

[ I.—Moved on. ]

[ II.—Club Ideas. ]

[ III.—A thorough-paced Reformer—if not a Revolutionary. ]

[ IV.—Very Broad Views. ]

[ V.—Party Tactics—and Political Obstructions to Social Reform. ]

[ VI.—Amateur Debating in a High Legislative Body. ]


[ PART V. WHAT GINX'S BABY DID WITH HIMSELF. ]

[ The Last Chapter. ]


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