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keeD in mind his distinction between notional and real assents; 
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i'tiiiviioiof notional into real assents, he gives the 
following illustration : 
“When the Duke of Wellington -ote his celehrated^etter about the 
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minds of the English people.” 
14 Dr Newman assigns this change to the power of the 
Stirfof KStS »i°rCh. in the c— ion 
our moral natui e. French marshals 
lington’s warnings were received was convei ted into g 
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what presents some difficulty is this, how ls l * at a “ 
whTch is not, and cannot be demonstrated which at the 
hiehest can only be proved to be truthlike, not true, such a , 
I shall die, nevertheless, claims and receives an nnqnahfied 
assent ?” To establish the unconditional character of a - 
“certitudes is the main point of Dr. Newman’s work . and 
it requires our most careful consideration. It is, m tact, 
great fXcy, and opens before us the bottomless gulf of 
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dit,W ' “M»k.“d have* with oon“S.3“ unanimity nnited 
