Books of the Month. 



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the exclusive ix»sse.ssioii of the truth it is liest 

 ans\ver<il by quoting Newman's own words : — " 1 

 think it a usurpation too wicked to be c<>mtort.il'I\ 

 dwelt upon, when individuals use their own private 

 judgment in the discussion of religious questions 

 . . . fi.r the purpose of anathematising tin- |)ri\,ite 

 juilgmint of others." "The ])rinciple of minimis- 

 ing is iK-iessary, for a wise and cautious theology 

 led him to dei'lart- that he put "' consriencv , a di\ini- 

 voice s]ieaking within us." before the Pope, that 

 only the Scliala Thclogorum was com|)etont to 

 determine the force of Pai^ai and Synodal utter- 

 ances, and that instances frequentlv «xnu- when 

 it i>i successfuilv maintained bv some new write' 

 that the Pope's act does not imply what it has 

 seemed to imp)). He quotes Bellarmine wit!i 

 apjjroval when he declareil : "It is lawful, I sa\ . 

 to resist the Pope (if he assaulted souls, or troubled 

 the .State, or strove to destroy the Church) by not 

 doing what he commands and hindering the execu- 

 tion i>f liis will." 



HIS DIFFICCLTIES IN ENGLAND. 



Newman in his Biretta speech on assuming the 

 red hat i-onlided to his sympathetic hearers the 

 difficulties which c<jnfrontefl his campaign againsi 

 Liberalism in Englanrl. '' The misfortune with 

 us," he said naixeiy. •■ is that it (the 1. liberalising 

 movement) does not necessarily arise out of in 

 lidelitv." It is due partly to the Nonconformist 

 lielief that Church and State are best ajjart, and 

 partiv 10 the faet that our Government is po[)ular 

 and the electors are of all religions. " .All action 

 wouhl lie at a de.idli.ck unle.ss the subject oi religion 

 is ignored.'' Further there is much in tiie l.ilx-r.d 

 istic theory that is gootl and true. " Nex<.'r was a 

 de\ice f)f the enemy so cleverly framed and wirti 

 such [iromise of success." 



HIS ANTI-DEMOCRATIC BIAS. 



Newman was .1 consistent enenn ot dcniociacv. 

 He detested and deplored the passing of the Reform 

 Act of iS.^j. He had sufficient insight and s\m 

 pathy to .say. "If ' were an Irishman I shouhl Ih' 

 (at heart) a reb<-l. ' In 1881 he wrote : — 



I am no politician. I have loiiK thought tliiit ili" 

 Tri.sli would Kiiin Ilonu- l{iili> in noiih' shnpe. ami tliiil 

 hotli hi'cau.^e (il tlie jvMii. lit tlic. scrie.s of jiasl coiillicts 

 with Ori'al Kritiiin. wliieli seems to portend it, and 

 lnyaii.ie Cif OriTce. lielKiiini. lioinliardy. Ilnn(;ar.v and 

 lliilcnria. lint I am no ndvocute for sneli i.ssue ; 

 ratlii>r. it soems to nie a blow on the power of Kri^rlan I 

 lis .m-rious ajt it is retributive. (Vol. II., p. .">I8.) 



There is nothing to show in these volumes that he 

 ever sympathiseil in the h-a.st with the liUTation of 

 any of thes<' nations. His f>ld friend I)ean Church 

 was enthusiastic for the lilx-ration of the Sla\s in 

 1877. But Newm.ni iloes not seem to have iH-eii 

 conscious f)f the lilerating work of Russia in the 

 Ea.st. He was intensely interpsted in llie ('rimeai\ 

 war, and th ■ de.-uh of Cmrdon affected hitn dceph. 



■■ The sacrifice of (Jordon " (for such he judged and 

 termed the Oneral's fate) " had the same effect 

 upon his i)earing as a per.sonal loss. He felt it as 

 an almcst unparalleled di.sgrace to the country. It 

 was a subject of \'ery solemn reflection, of which 

 he could bareh speak. This strong feeling about 

 it never realK died in him." 



lil.S I'iiRSONAL LIKINGS. 



Newman, like other men. had his likes and dis- 

 likes. H-^Te is a lisf of the saints who.se intercession 



.liMIN IIKNKY NEWMAN IN I,S7:{. 



From an t-npraviaiy by Joseph Bi-owii. 



(>>.v IV/. /(.) 



he invoked when in 1864 he felt himself in the near 



prese!"--- ■ ■(' death : 



I.ST (ATKliOliV. 

 M. .Joseph. 

 .St. Philip Neri. 

 St. .John the Kvnnieli.st. 

 .Si. .lohn the Baptist. 

 St. Henry. 

 .St. .Vtli'inasins. 

 St. (Jri'^orv .N'aziaii/.i'n. 

 .St. Chrv.'-ostom. 

 .St. .Vmbrosi'. 



•Jnii (ATiaioiiv. 

 .St. Peter. 

 St. (Jre'^oiv. 

 St. Leo. 



.'{Kn ( \TK<iOIIV. 

 The (Jreat .\postli'. 

 St. Paid. 



