made him a brute, because such men do become brutes. It is the real
punishment of brutal and selfish habits. There the figure stands--a
picture of a man in the rank of English life with which Bunyan was most
familiar; travelling along the primrose path to the everlasting bonfire,
as the way to Emmanuel's Land was through the Slough of Despond and the
Valley of the Shadow of Death. Pleasures are to be found among the
primroses, such pleasures as a brute can be gratified by. Yet the reader
feels that even if there was no bonfire, he would still prefer to be with
Christian."




FOOTNOTES


{1} A small enclosure behind a cottage.