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danger from such additions to the series as those made by Dr. 

 Hampden, these lectures had been, as a rule, saturated with the 

 older traditions of the Anglican Church. But now there came an 

 evident change. The departures from the old paths became many 

 and striking, until at last, in 1893, came the lectures on Inspira- 

 tion by the Rev. Dr. Sanday, Ireland Professor of Exegesis in the 

 University of Oxford. In these, concessions were made to the 

 newer criticism, which at an earlier time would have driven the 

 lecturer not only out of the Church but out of any decent posi- 

 tion in society ; for Prof. Sanday not merely gave up a vast mass 

 of the other ideas which the great body of churchmen had re- 

 garded as fundamental, but accepted a number of conclusions 

 established by the newer criticism. He declared that Kuenen 

 and Wellhausen had mapped out, on the whole rightly, the main 

 stages of development in the history of Hebrew literature; he 

 incorporated with approval the work of other eminent heretics ; 

 he acknowledged that very many statements in the Pentateuch 

 show " the naive ideas and usages of a primitive age." But, most 

 important of all, he gave up the whole question in regard to the 

 book of Daniel. Up to a time then very recent, the early author- 

 ship and predictive character of the book of Daniel were things 

 which no one was allowed to dispute for a moment. Pusey, as 

 we have seen, had proved to the controlling parties in the English 

 Church that Christianity must stand or fall with the traditional 

 view of this book; and now, within a few years of Pusey 's death, 

 there came in his own university, speaking from the pulpit of St. 

 Mary's, whence he had so often insisted upon the absolute neces- 

 sity of maintaining the older view, this professor of biblical 

 criticism, a doctor of divinity, showing conclusively as regards 

 the book of Daniel that the critical view had won the day ; that 

 the name of Daniel is only assumed ; that the book is in no sense 

 predictive, but was written, mainly at least, after the events it 

 describes; that "its author lived at the time of the Maccabean 

 struggle"; that it is very inaccurate even in the simple facts 

 which it cites ; and hence that all the vast fabric erected upon 

 its predictive character is baseless. 



But another evidence of the coming in of a new epoch was 

 even more striking. 



To uproot every growth of the newer thought, to destroy even 

 every germ that had been planted by Colenso and men like him, 

 a special movement was begun, of which the most important part 

 was the establishment at the University of Oxford of a college 

 which should bring the old opinion with crushing force against 

 the new thought, and should train up a body of young men by 

 feeding them upon the utterances of the fathers, of the medieeval 

 doctors, and of the apologists of the seventeenth and eighteenth 



