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He is irreligious, because he has inherited the
knowledge that religion does not exist in forms, and his reason
rejects mockery. He is not a knight, because he has not the power to
bestow distinctions; and he has not the power, because he is the
offspring and not the parent of a system. In what manner these several
qualities are exhibited, in some of the most strongly marked of the
latter class, will be seen in the course of the ensuing narrative.
Ishmael Bush had passed the whole of a life of more than fifty years
on the skirts of society. He boasted that he had never dwelt where he
might not safely fell every tree he could view from his own threshold;
that the law had rarely been known to enter his clearing, and that his
ears had never willingly admitted the sound of a church bell. His
exertions seldom exceeded his wants, which were peculiar to his class,
and rarely failed of being supplied. He had no respect for any
learning except that of the leech; because he was ignorant of the
application of any other intelligence than such as met the senses.


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