A professor, addressing an academic audience, warned his hearers
against cant. At the close, questions were invited and one of
the students asked the professor, “What is cant?” “There is a
kind of religion,” was the reply, “which is natural to an old
woman, and there is another which is natural to a young man;
but if the young man professes to have the religion of the old
woman, that is cant.”
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