●   ●   ●    lawyer-politician—the conventional product of a particular culture—to suppose himself competent to settle in a New Hampshire courtroom the great metaphysical questions of the ages: the ultimate nature of reality; the origin of life; the problem of evil; the relation of reason to revelation, of the empirical to the transcendent, of matter to spirit, of body to mind; the limits of knowledge; the validity of prayer; the ambiguity of language; the subjectivity of belief. 113 Arthur Brisbane, who was no more of a “thinker” than Chandler, nevertheless showed a more rough-and-ready common sense in his article in the August Cosmopolitan : The Turkish minister of Washington, if any court asked him, would say he firmly believes that Mohammed rode up to see God on a galloway named Al Borak, that the intelligent Al Borak bucked and pranced until Mohammed promised him a seat in paradise, that Mohammed studied an interesting angel with seventy thousand heads, “in each head seventy thousand tongues, and each tongue uttered seventy thousand distinct voices at once.