Hugh Bronte worked up to his tenant-right doctrines by a series of
assertions, negative and positive, on religious, political, and
economic questions. His address, in which he set forth his views on
such matters, approximated to the form of a lecture more nearly than
any of his other talks, which were generally in the narrative form.
The following are the chief points of the discourse, as given to me by
my old tutor and friend, and the propositions were never varied,
except in the mere wording, although the statement had never been
formally written out.
Hugh Bronte always began with a little black Bible in his hand, or on
his knee, and his first negative assertion was: