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pure air and pure water under the appropriate title of * Health 

 and Education.' But bis mind was chiefly engaged with graver 

 subjects ; and the discourses he delivered at the Cathedral 

 churches of Chester and Westminster will be the most con- 

 spicuous monument of his later years. It was in 1864 that the 

 dispute between Canon Kingsley and Dr. Newman was developed 

 out of a paper by the former on Mr. Fronde's history in the 

 January Number of ' Macmillan's Magazine.' The occasion of 

 C. K.'s — the initials attached to the article — unfavourable com- 

 ment on the great Oratoriau was an extract from Dr. Newman's 

 sermon on ' Wisdom and Innocence,' which had been preached in 

 1844. " Truth, for its own sake," remarked the Canon, " has 

 never been a virtue of the Eoman Catholic clergy. Father 

 Newman informs us that it need not be, and that, on the whole, 

 it ought not to be ; that cunning is the weapon which Heaven 

 has given to the saints wherewith to withstand the brute male force 

 of the wicked world which marries and is given in marriage." 

 Of this allegation Dr. Newman complained as " a grave and gra- 

 tuitious slander." A note was appended to the next Number of 

 ' Macmillan's Magazine,' in which regret was expressed by Canon 

 Kingsley that he should have misunderstood Dr. Newman. 

 " While I feel, then," wrote Dr. Newman a little afterwards, 

 " that Mr. Kingsley's February explanation is miserably insuffi- 

 cient in itself for his January enormity, still I feel also that the 

 correspondence which lies between these two acts of his consti- 

 tutes a real satisfaction to those principles of historical and lite- 

 rary justice to which he has given so rude a shock. Accordingly 

 I have put it into print, and make no further criticism on Mr. 

 Kingsley." Professor Kingsley replied on the whole merits of 

 the case in a pamphlet, entitled ' What, then, does Dr. Newman 

 mean ? ' which composition in turn elicited the famous 'Apologia.' 

 There has been much, and perhaps useless, discussion as to the 

 theological school with which Canon Kingsley was associated. It 

 has been said that he thought that the teaching of Mr. Maurice 

 gave the solution of the great problems of the day ; that Chris- 

 tianity thus expounded might welcome without a trace of mis- 

 giving the advances of scientific inquiry in every department of 

 knowledge ; that it dissolved the fetters which a mistaken dog- 

 matism had imposed upon men's minds and upon their natural 

 impulses. This may or may not have been the case ; but it seems 

 probable that Church of England Divines, those at leai?t of the 



