text:  But all this stupidity we humbly conceive might have found as fitting an arena in Westminster Hall or even in Westminster Abbey--with reverence be it spoken--as on the quarter-deck of a man-of-war; for we maintain it is of less consequence for a man to be a great pleader or an eloquent divine (where the utmost extent of evil resulting from the absence of eloquence and acuteness is a law-suit lost or a congregation lulled to sleep ) than that he should be active energetic skilful in one of the "leviathans afloat on the brine