''So much pain; and the more honest the man the worse the pain. But there at least the conflict is direct; it seems to me that the greater mass of confusion and distress must arise from these less evident divergencies -- the moral law, the civil, military, common laws, the code of honour, custom, the rules of practical life, of civility, of amorous conversation, gallantry, to say nothing of Christianity for those that practise it. All sometimes, indeed generally, at variance...It is as though our strings were each tuned according to a completely separate system - it is as though the poor ass were surrounded by four and twenty mangers.''''You are an antinomian,'' said Jack.
''I am a pragmatist,'' said Stephen. ''Come, let us drink up our wine.''
(Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, 1970, pp.354-6.)
