s letters on this family episode survives.

[86] Afterwards Bishop of Salisbury.

[87] Marrying Walter Scott's granddaughter (1847) he was named
Hope-Scott after 1853.

[88] The _Apologia_ of its leader; Froude, _Short Studies_, vol. iv.;
and Dean Church's _Oxford Movement_, 1833-45, a truly fascinating
book--called by Mr. Gladstone a great and noble book. 'It has all the
delicacy,' he says, 'the insight into the human mind, heart, and
character, which were Newman's great endowment; but there is a pervading
sense of soundness about it which Newman, great as he was, never
inspired.'

[89] See Dr. Fairbairn's _Catholicism, Roman and Anglican_, p. 292.
Pusey speaks of our 'paying twenty millions for a theory about slavery'
(Liddon, _Life of Pusey_, iii. p. 172).

[90] _Dissertations_, i. p. 444.

[91] J. B. Mozley's _Letters_, p. 234.

[92] Stanley's _Life of Arnold_, ii. p. 56 _n_.

[93] The _Vestiges of Creation_ appeared in 1844.

[94] The letter will be found at the end of the chapter.

[95] See his article in the _Nineteenth Century_ for August, 1894, where
he calls Palmer's book the most powerful and least assailable defence of
the position of the anglican church from the sixteenth century
downwards.

[96] See Church, _Oxford Movement_, pp. 214-6.

[97] This letter is printed in the _Life of Hampden_ (1876), p. 199.

CHAPTER V

HIS FIRST BOOK

(_1838-1839_)

The union [with the State] is to the Church of secondary though
great importance. _Her_ foundations are on the holy hills. Her
charter is legibly divine. She, if she should be excluded from the
precinct of government, may still fulfil all her functions, and
carry them out to perfection. Her condition would be anything
rather than pitiable, should she once more occupy the position
which she held before the reign of Constantine. But the State, in
rejecting her, would actively violate its most solemn duty, and
would, if the theory of the connection be sound, entail upon itself
a curse.--GLADSTONE (1838).

According to Mr. Gladstone, a furore for church establishment came down
upon the conservative squadrons between 1835 and 1838. He describes it
as due especially to the activity of the presbyterian established church
of Scotland before the disruption, and especially to the 'zealous and
truly noble propaga