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On
this
ground
it
was
(
professionally
speaking
)
fortunate
for
Dr
.
Minchin
that
his
religious
sympathies
were
of
a
general
kind
,
and
such
as
gave
a
distant
medical
sanction
to
all
serious
sentiment
,
whether
of
Church
or
Dissent
,
rather
than
any
adhesion
to
particular
tenets
.
If
Mr
.
Bulstrode
insisted
,
as
he
was
apt
to
do
,
on
the
Lutheran
doctrine
of
justification
,
as
that
by
which
a
Church
must
stand
or
fall
,
Dr
.
Minchin
in
return
was
quite
sure
that
man
was
not
a
mere
machine
or
a
fortuitous
conjunction
of
atoms
;
if
Mrs
.
Wimple
insisted
on
a
particular
providence
in
relation
to
her
stomach
complaint
,
Dr
.
Minchin
for
his
part
liked
to
keep
the
mental
windows
open
and
objected
to
fixed
limits
;
if
the
Unitarian
brewer
jested
about
the
Athanasian
Creed
,
Dr
.
Minchin
quoted
Pope
’
s
"
Essay
on
Man
.
"
He
objected
to
the
rather
free
style
of
anecdote
in
which
Dr
.
Sprague
indulged
,
preferring
well
-
sanctioned
quotations
,
and
liking
refinement
of
all
kinds
:
it
was
generally
known
that
he
had
some
kinship
to
a
bishop
,
and
sometimes
spent
his
holidays
at
"
the
palace
.
"
Dr
.
Minchin
was
soft
-
handed
,
pale
-
complexioned
,
and
of
rounded
outline
,
not
to
be
distinguished
from
a
mild
clergyman
in
appearance
:
whereas
Dr
.
Sprague
was
superfluously
tall
;
his
trousers
got
creased
at
the
knees
,
and
showed
an
excess
of
boot
at
a
time
when
straps
seemed
necessary
to
any
dignity
of
bearing
;
you
heard
him
go
in
and
out
,
and
up
and
down
,
as
if
he
had
come
to
see
after
the
roofing
.
In
short
,
he
had
weight
,
and
might
be
expected
to
grapple
with
a
disease
and
throw
it
;
while
Dr
.
Minchin
might
be
better
able
to
detect
it
lurking
and
to
circumvent
it
.
They
enjoyed
about
equally
the
mysterious
privilege
of
medical
reputation
,
and
concealed
with
much
etiquette
their
contempt
for
each
other
’
s
skill
.
Regarding
themselves
as
Middlemarch
institutions
,
they
were
ready
to
combine
against
all
innovators
,
and
against
non
-
professionals
given
to
interference
.
On
this
ground
they
were
both
in
their
hearts
equally
averse
to
Mr
.
Bulstrode
,
though
Dr
.
Minchin
had
never
been
in
open
hostility
with
him
,
and
never
differed
from
him
without
elaborate
explanation
to
Mrs
.
Bulstrode
,
who
had
found
that
Dr
.
Minchin
alone
understood
her
constitution
.
A
layman
who
pried
into
the
professional
conduct
of
medical
men
,
and
was
always
obtruding
his
reforms
—
though
he
was
less
directly
embarrassing
to
the
two
physicians
than
to
the
surgeon
-
apothecaries
who
attended
paupers
by
contract
,
was
nevertheless
offensive
to
the
professional
nostril
as
such
;
and
Dr
.
Minchin
shared
fully
in
the
new
pique
against
Bulstrode
,
excited
by
his
apparent
determination
to
patronize
Lydgate
.
The
long
-
established
practitioners
,
Mr
.
Wrench
and
Mr
.
Toller
;
were
just
now
standing
apart
and
having
a
friendly
colloquy
,
in
which
they
agreed
that
Lydgate
was
a
jackanapes
,
just
made
to
serve
Bulstrode
’
s
purpose
.
To
non
-
medical
friends
they
had
already
concurred
in
praising
the
other
young
practitioner
,
who
had
come
into
the
town
on
Mr
.
Peacock
’
s
retirement
without
further
recommendation
than
his
own
merits
and
such
argument
for
solid
professional
acquirement
as
might
be
gathered
from
his
having
apparently
wasted
no
time
on
other
branches
of
knowledge
.
It
was
clear
that
Lydgate
,
by
not
dispensing
drugs
,
intended
to
cast
imputations
on
his
equals
,
and
also
to
obscure
the
limit
between
his
own
rank
as
a
general
practitioner
and
that
of
the
physicians
,
who
,
in
the
interest
of
the
profession
,
felt
bound
to
maintain
its
various
grades
—
especially
against
a
man
who
had
not
been
to
either
of
the
English
universities
and
enjoyed
the
absence
of
anatomical
and
bedside
study
there
,
but
came
with
a
libellous
pretension
to
experience
in
Edinburgh
and
Paris
,
where
observation
might
be
abundant
indeed
,
but
hardly
sound
.
Thus
it
happened
that
on
this
occasion
Bulstrode
became
identified
with
Lydgate
,
and
Lydgate
with
Tyke
;
and
owing
to
this
variety
of
interchangeable
names
for
the
chaplaincy
question
,
diverse
minds
were
enabled
to
form
the
same
judgment
concerning
it
.
Dr
.
Sprague
said
at
once
bluntly
.
to
the
group
assembled
when
he
entered
,
"
I
go
for
Farebrother
.
A
salary
,
with
all
my
heart
.
But
why
take
it
from
the
Vicar
?
He
has
none
too
much
—
has
to
insure
his
life
,
besides
keeping
house
,
and
doing
a
vicar
’
s
charities
.
Put
forty
pounds
in
his
pocket
and
you
’
ll
do
no
harm
.
He
’
s
a
good
fellow
,
is
Farebrother
,
with
as
little
of
the
parson
about
him
as
will
serve
to
carry
orders
.
"
"
Ho
,
ho
!
Doctor
,
"
said
old
Mr
.
Powderell
,
a
retired
iron
-
monger
of
some
standing
—
his
interjection
being
something
between
a
laugh
and
a
Parliamentary
disapproval
;
"
we
must
let
you
have
your
say
.
But
what
we
have
to
consider
is
not
anybody
’
s
income
—
it
’
s
the
souls
of
the
poor
sick
people
"
—
here
Mr
.
Powderell
’
s
voice
and
face
had
a
sincere
pathos
in
them
.
"
He
is
a
real
Gospel
preacher
,
is
Mr
.
Tyke
.
I
should
vote
against
my
conscience
if
I
voted
against
Mr
.
Tyke
—
I
should
indeed
.
"
"
Mr
.
Tyke
’
s
opponents
have
not
asked
any
one
to
vote
against
his
conscience
,
I
believe
,
"
said
Mr
.
Hackbutt
,
a
rich
tanner
of
fluent
speech
,
whose
glittering
spectacles
and
erect
hair
were
turned
with
some
severity
towards
innocent
Mr
.
Powderell
.
"
But
in
my
judgment
it
behoves
us
,
as
Directors
,
to
consider
whether
we
will
regard
it
as
our
whole
business
to
carry
out
propositions
emanating
from
a
single
quarter
.
Will
any
member
of
the
committee
aver
that
he
would
have
entertained
the
idea
of
displacing
the
gentleman
who
has
always
discharged
the
function
of
chaplain
here
,
if
it
had
not
been
suggested
to
him
by
parties
whose
disposition
it
is
to
regard
every
institution
of
this
town
as
a
machinery
for
carrying
out
their
own
views
?
I
tax
no
man
’
s
motives
:
let
them
lie
between
himself
and
a
higher
Power
;
but
I
do
say
,
that
there
are
influences
at
work
here
which
are
incompatible
with
genuine
independence
,
and
that
a
crawling
servility
is
usually
dictated
by
circumstances
which
gentlemen
so
conducting
themselves
could
not
afford
either
morally
or
financially
to
avow
.
I
myself
am
a
layman
,
but
I
have
given
no
inconsiderable
attention
to
the
divisions
in
the
Church
and
—
"
