"That is always the way with stay-at-homes. If they like something in their own village they take it for a thing universal and eternal, though perhaps it was ne

"That is always the way with stay-at-homes. If they like something in their own village they take it for a thing universal and eternal, though perhaps it was never heard of five miles away; if they dislike something, they say it is a local, backward, provincial convention, though, in fact, it may be the law of nations."