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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: that in all nice matters you should take the implication for absolute,
and, without looking into the FACT WHETHER, seek only the reason why?
But the fact is so, on the word of a friar; which what layman will venture
to gainsay who prefers a down bed to a gridiron?"
"The fact being so," said the knight, "I am still at a loss for the reason;
nor would I undertake to opine in a matter of that magnitude: since, in all
that appertains to the good things either of this world or the next,
my reverend spiritual guides are kind enough to take the trouble of thinking
off my hands."
"Spoken," said brother Michael, "with a sound Catholic conscience.
My little brother here is most profound in the matter of trout.
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