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Title: Correspondence on church and religion. Selected and arr. by D.C. Lathbury
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gladstone, W. E. (William Ewart), 1809-1898 Lathbury, Daniel Conner
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Publisher: London Murray
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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^ beautiesof style, like the drawing of Raphael compared withthe drawing of ordinary painters. It calls back to mea line in which I think (but it is long since I read it)Dante describes his own religious ecstasies : Chefece me da me uscir di mente. And yet (I do not know if you agree with me) Ithink Newman is not, and never was, a philosopher—aphilosopher, I mean, in the sense of Butler. He has not the balance of mind, and his aspects of
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Fholo, .\hiiiu lUanc Jlh, Canna. MR. AND MRS. GLADSTONE, CHAl EAU THORRNC, CANNES,FEBRUARY, 1898. To/ace page :^oo, Val. II. i866) NEWMAN AND BUTLER 30I truth are partial: he is not well settled on a centre ofgravity, his plumb-line is not true. I think there is nothing more characteristic of theunphilosophic mind than impatience of doubt andpremature avidity for system. That seems to me(especially after the revelations of the * Apologia) tohave been Newmans snare all along. No man cangrasp truth entire. Butler took it in fragments, but hiswise instinct enabled him so to lay each stone that itwould fit in with every stone which might be well andtruly laid in the double light of thought and of experi-ence. He is now in his second century, and his worksare at once younger and older than when he wrote them :older, because confirmed by the testing operations ofother minds, younger, because with not only fullerand broader, but with, so to speak, more flexiblefoundations adaptive to the pre

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