To the Very Reverend FATHER NEWMAN, D.D. 



MY DEAR DR. NEWMAN, 



IT is with a special gladness that I avail myself 

 of your kind permission to dedicate to you, who love the 

 natural world so keenly, the following chapters on Nature 

 considered as one whole whereof rational man forms a part. 

 A tribute of respectful gratitude is indeed due from one so 

 indebted as I am. Among the many obligations I owe to 

 you, is the ability to unite in one the Theistic and the 

 Naturalistic conceptions of the world about us conceptions 

 a divorce between which is the calamity of our age. To 

 former obligations however you have now added yet another. 

 As an Englishman and a Catholic, I thank you with all my 

 heart for your recent noble vindication of the rights of con 

 sciencea vindication to which reference and appeal will, 

 I am persuaded, be made again and again in the times 

 which are to come. That that voice which so lately stilled 

 the storm may long be spared to speak words of peace and 

 wisdom disarming prejudice and calming passion is the 

 most earnest hope and prayer of 



Yours most respectfully and affectionately, 



ST. GEORGE MIVAKT. 



WlLMBHURST, UCKFIELD, 



December 8th, 1875. 



