So severely dialectical was he that he seemed to be a hair-splitter.

" A. "How so, thou hair-splitter?" S. "Have we not proved it to be common to man and animals; but are not those passions which we have in common with animals to be restrained?" P.

That, I think, would be the outcome of Emerson's 'Representative Men,' or of those most tragic 'Memoirs of Margaret Puller Ossoli.'" "How then, hair-splitter?

"You are the hair-splitter this time," said he, ruefully.

[Footnote 111: Hair-splitters.] OF ADVERSITY.