Sentence:  And how can a man teach with autority, which is the life of teaching, how can he be a Doctor in his book as he ought to be, or else had better be silent, whenas all he teaches, all he delivers, is but under the tuition, under the correction of his patriarchal licencer to blot or alter what precisely accords not with the <WSD>hidebound</WSD> humor which he calls his judgement. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.