es
space, robs him of locomotion, almost scoffs at the existence of the
earth, and he is simply frightened and cowed. He can but say "the man
who wrote that sermon was already past the possibility of conscious
dishonesty," p. 41. Perhaps it is hardly fair, after such a
confession on his part of being fairly beat, to mark down a blot;
however, let it be Blot _thirty-two_.

Then again, he quotes from me thus: "Many a theory or view of things,
on which an institution is founded, or a party held together, is of
the same kind (economical). Many an argument, used by zealous and
earnest men, has this economical character, being not the very ground
on which they act (for they continue in the same course, though it be
refuted), yet in a certain sense, a representation of it, a proximate
description of their feelings, in the shape of argument, on which
they can rest, to which they can recur when perplexed, and appeal
when they are questioned." He calls these "startling words," p. 39.
Yet here again he illustrates their truth; for in his own case, he
has acted on them in this very controversy with the most happy
exactness. Surely he referred to my sermon on Wisdom and Innocence,
when called on to prove me a liar, as "a proximate description of his
feelings about me, in the shape of argument," and he has "continued
in the same course though it has been refuted." Blot _thirty-three_.

Then, as to "a party being held together by a mythical
representation," or economy. Surely "Church and King," "Reform,"
"Non-intervention," are such symbols; or let this writer answer Mr.
Kinglake's question in his "Crimean War," "Is it true that ... great
armies were gathering, and that for the sake of the _Key_ and the
_Star_ the peace of the nations was brought into danger?" Blot
_thirty-four_.

In the beginning of this work, pp. 17-23, I refuted his gratuitous
accusation against me at p. 42, founded on my calling one of my
Anglican sermons a Protestant one: so I have nothing to do but to
register it here as Blot _thirty-five_.

Then he says that I committed an economy in placing in my original
title-page, that the question between him and me, was whether "Dr.
Newman teaches that Truth is no virtue." It was a "wisdom of the
serpentine type," since I did not add, "for its own sake." Now
observe: First, as to the matter of fact, in the course of my
Letters, which bore that title-page, I printed the words "for its own
sake," _five_ times