Abject of sinners is that sensitive, The flesh, amenable to stripes, miscalled Incorrigible: such title do we give To the poor shrinking stuff wherewith we are walled; And, taking it for Nature, place in ban Our Mother, as a Power wanton-willed, The shame and Baffler of the soul of man, The recreant, reptilious.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
Baffler of man's law, thou, too, hast escaped with life!
"Lucretia, Volume 6."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton