30th. The two clerics – Messrs. Maiming the schoolmaster and Högling the parson – pestered me with their stubborn clerical fancies. I was astonished that such great arrogance and ambition, such great foolishness and vulgarity, such great stubbornness and base argumentation should be found in men of the cloth, who are after all supposed to be educated men. Indeed, any student of the age of 12 ought to have read his books better. I could understand only too well why these ruffians had been kept well away from decent people.