Contents
I. Early Years.
II. The Tractarians.
III. First Catholic Period.
IV .Apologia pro Vita Sua.
V. The Logic of Belief.
VI. Dream of Gerontius.
VII. The Man of Letters.
VIII .Newman’s Place in History.
EXTRACT
“In one thing Newman far surpassed Wesley: he was a man of letters equal to the greatest writers of prose his native country had brought forth. The Catholic Reaction of the Nineteenth Century claims its place in literature, thanks to this incomparable talent, side by side with the German mysticism of Carlyle, the devout liberalism of Tennyson, the lyric Utopias of Shelley, and the robust optimism of Browning. Newman is an English classic.”
Footnotes:
1 Tennyson.
2 Wordsworth.
3 See p. 207. Philip Henry, 5th Earl Stanhope (1805-1875), Historian, and Patron of Letters.
4 “Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.”—Pope.
5 He was so described by George Sand.
6 Dr. Williams, President of Jesus College.
7 Nicholas Nickleby.
8 “A shocking child-murder has just been committed at Nottingham. A girl named Wragg left the workhouse there on Saturday morning with her young illegitimate child. The child was soon afterwards found dead on Mapperly Hills, having been strangled. Wragg is in custody.”
9 Thomas Arnold, D.D., Head Master of Rugby. His eldest son, Matthew Arnold, Inspector of Schools. His second son, Thomas Arnold, Professor in University College, Dublin. His third son, Edward Penrose Arnold, Inspector of Schools. His fourth son, William Delafield Arnold, Director of Public Instruction in the Punjaub.
11 Reprinted in Irish Essays and Others.
12 This essay, unfortunately, was never reprinted.
16 For the width of his reading, see his Note-Books, Edited by his daughter, Mrs. Wodehouse.
17 Reprinted in Irish Essays, and Others.
19 Dr. Bradley.
20 The History and Literature of the Israelites. By C. and A. de Rothschild.
21 A favourite creation of the late Mr. William Cory.
22 Burke.
23 Mr. Willis’ motion to remove the Bishops from the House of Lords was lost by 11 votes on the 21st of March, 1884.
24 Now (1893) Lord Wemyss.
27 It contains also “My Countrymen” and “A Courteous Explanation.”
28 The writer was then a schoolboy at Harrow, where Arnold lived from 1868 to 1873.
29 William Cory.
30 Reprinted in Essays in Criticism.
31 A Protestant lecturer of the period.
34 His third son.
35 His elder daughter.
36 His younger daughter.
37 His fourth son.
38 His eldest son.
39 His second son.
40 “Chastity was the supreme virtue in the eyes of the Church, the mystic key to Christian holiness. Continence was one of the most sacred pretensions by which the organized preachers of superstition claimed the reverence of men and women. It was identified, therefore, in a particular manner with that Infamous, against which the main assault of the time was directed.”—Morley’s Voltaire.
41 “Rules of Cautions; or, Helps to Obedience: called by some the Hedge of the Law.”—Bishop Andrews.
42 F.W.H. Myers.
44 The allusion is to the late Mr. W. Hepworth Dixon, and his writings on the Polygamous Sects of America.
45 W.E. Gladstone, The Church of England and Ritualism.
46 A saying attributed to Bishop Wilberforce.
50 W.E. Gladstone: Later Gleanings.
51 Essays in Criticism. “Pagan and Mediæval Religious Sentiment.”
53 Edward, 12th Duke of Somerset (1804-1885). Author of Christian Theology and Modern Scepticism.
54 Literature and Dogma.
56 Rome and Romanizing. By Arthur Galton.
57 “Spade! with which Wilkinson hath tilled his lands,” etc.