about the corporeality of the soul may have had
something to do with the remarkable perceptive powers
of the Montanist medium, in whose revelations of the
spiritual world he took such profound interest.

[94] See the New York _World_ for Sunday, 21st October,
1888; and the _Report of the Seybert Commission_,
Philadelphia, 1887.

[95] Dr. Newman's observation that the miraculous
multiplication of the pieces of the true cross (with
which "the whole world is filled," according to Cyril
of Jerusalem; and of which some say there are enough
extant to build a man-of-war) is no more wonderful
than that of the loaves and fishes, is one that I do
not see my way to contradict. See _Essay on Miracles_.
2d ed. p. 163.

[96] _An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine_,
by J.H. Newman, D.D., pp. 7 and 8. (1878.)

[97] Dr. Newman faces this question with his customary
ability. "Now, I own, I am not at all solicitous to
deny that this doctrine of an apostate Angel and his
hosts was gained from Babylon: it might still be
Divine nevertheless. God who made the prophet's ass
speak, and thereby instructed the prophet, might
instruct His Church by means of heathen Babylon"
(Tract 85, p. 83). There seems to be no end to the
apologetic burden that Balaam's ass may carry.

[98] _Nineteenth Century_, May 1889 (p. 701).

[99] I trust it may not be supposed that I undervalue M.
Renan's labours, or intended to speak slightingly of
them.

[100] To-day's _Times_ contains a report of a remarkable
speech by Prince Bismarck, in which he tells the
Reichstag that he has long given up investing in
foreign stock, lest so doing should mislead his
judgment in his transactions with foreign states. Does
this declaration prove that the Chancellor accuses
himself of being "sordid" and "selfish"; or does it not
rather show that, even in dealing with himself, he
remains the man of realities?

X: THE KEEPERS OF THE HERD OF SWINE

[1890]

I had fondly hoped that Mr. Gladstone and I had come to an end of
disputation, and that the hatchet of war was finally superseded by the
calumet, which,