The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 76
[new system proposed]
The fact is, that when the new system was first proposed, it appeared to them, as it did to most people, so utterly absurd that they condemned it, without the least investigation, and they did this in such a positive, vulgar, and untruthful way, that no course was left open to them but to try and brazen it out, and in this they have so far succeeded.