Rectory, Clyst St. George.
_Simile of the Soul and the Magnetic Needle_ (Vol. vi., pp. 127. 207. 280.
368. 566.).--Dr. Arnold, with more religion than science, thus employs this
simile:
"Men get embarrassed by the common cases of misguided conscience; but a
compass may be out of order as well as a conscience, and the needle may
point due south if you hold a powerful magnet in that direction. Still
the compass, generally speaking, is a true and sure guide, and so is
the conscience; and you {509} can trace the deranging influence on the
latter quite as surely as on the former."--_Life and Correspondence_,
2nd ed. p. 390.