Now for the sake of an experiment, and for the clearer illustrating this matter--let us for a moment take off one of these two curious ornaments (I care not which) from the point or pinnacle of the chair it now stands on--nay, don't laugh at it, --but did you ever see, in the whole course of your lives, such a ridiculous business as this has made of it? --Why, 'tis as miserable a sight as a sow with one ear; and there is just as much sense and symmetry in the one as in the other: ----do----pray, get off your seats only to take a view of it. ----Now would any man who valued his character a straw, have turned a piece of work out of his hand in such a condition? --nay, lay your hands upon your hearts, and answer this plain question, Whether this one single knob, which now stands here like a blockhead by itself, can serve any purpose upon earth, but to put one in mind of the want of the other? --and let me farther ask, in case the chair was your own, if you would not in your consciences think, rather than be as it is, that it would be ten times better without any knob at all?

Now, for the clearer illustration of this matter, let us take off one of these two curious ornaments (I care not which) from the chair. Nay, don't laugh - but did you ever see such a ridiculous business as this has made of it? Why, 'tis as miserable a sight as a sow with one ear. Would any self-respecting craftsman turn out a piece of work in such a condition?
Nay, answer me this question: whether this one single knob, which now stands here like a blockhead by itself, can serve any purpose but to remind one of the lack of the other? Would it not be ten times better without any knob at all?
