evil in any form, and (involved in it) eternal suffering. To believe in
these would take away my God, who is all-loving. With a God with whom
omnipotence and omniscience were all, evil might be eternal; but why do I
say to you what has been better said elsewhere?'

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LADY BYRON TO H. C. R.

'BRIGHTON, Jan. 31, 1855.

. . . 'The great difficulty in respect to "The Review" {320b} seems to
be to settle a basis, inclusive and exclusive; in short, a boundary
question. From what you said, I think you agreed with me, that a
latitudinarian Christianity ought to be the character of the periodical;
but the depth of the roots should correspond with the width of the
branches of that tree of knowledge. Of some of those minds one might
say, "They have no root;" and then, the richer the foliage, the more
danger that the trunk will fall. "Grounded in Christ" has to me a most
practical significance and value. I, too, have anxiety about a friend
(Miss Carpenter) whose life is of public importance: she, more than any
of the English reformers, unless Nash and Wright, has found the art of
drawing out the good of human nature, and proving its existence. She
makes these discoveries by the light of love. I hope she may recover,
from to-day's report. The object of a Reformatory in Leicester has just
been secured at a county meeting . . . . Now the desideratum is well-
qualified masters and mistresses. If you hear of such by chance, pray
let me know. The regular schoolmaster is an extinguisher. Heart, and
familiarity with the class to be educated, are all important. At home
and abroad, the evidence is conclusive on that point; for I have for many
years attended to such experiments in various parts of Europe. "The
Irish Quarterly" has taken up the subject with rather more zeal than
judgment. I had hoped that a sound and temperate exposition of the facts
might form an article in the "Might-have-been Review."'

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LADY BYRON TO H. C. R.

'BRIGHTON, Feb. 12, 1855.

'I have at last earned the pleasure of writing to you by having settled
troublesome matters of little moment, except locally; and I gladly take a
wider range by sympathizing in your interests. There is, besides, no
responsibility--for me at least--in canvassing the merits of Russell or
Palmerston, but much in deciding whether the "village politician" Jackson
or Thompson shall be lea