combatants, on one side or the other, in very different fields of
tourney.

Here and there his writing ascends to a fine note of eloquence, as in his
great exclamatory passage on music that begins thus:--

There are seven notes in the scale; make them fourteen: yet what a
slender outfit for so vast an enterprise! What science brings so
much out of so little? Out of what poor elements does some great
master in it create his new world!

But all his writings, religious and controversial, will not explain the
immense and dominating effect Newman produced upon his contemporaries.
That effect was due to the irresistible magic of his personality. He was
manifestly one of the Saints of God, and his presence brought with it
into any company a sense of mighty power gloved in stainless humility.
Though habitually bearing an aspect of wistful gentleness, his entry into
a room crowded with distinguished people made them all seem to be
something less than they were before his arrival.

A man of such a character commands by his visible presence, and those who
have not felt the spell of it do not comprehend the cause of his
authoritative influence among those who have.

The teaching of Newman on the great question of man's relation to the
sentient creatures placed in his power in the world, must come to us with
all the weight that is implicit in the utterance of one of such
unquestioned sanctity.

It would be difficult in all his voluminous works to discover anything
more touching and moving than his reference to the sufferings of animals,
who as he says "have done no harm," which is embedded in the seventh
volume of his Parochial and Plain Sermons:--

First, as to these sufferings, you will observe that our Lord is
called a Lamb in the text; that is, He was as defenceless and as
innocent as a lamb is. Since then Scripture compares Him to this
inoffensive and unprotected animal, we may, without presumption or
irreverence, take the image as a means of conveying to our minds
those feelings which our Lord's sufferings should excite in us. I
mean, consider how very horrible it is to read the accounts which
sometimes meet us of cruelties exercised on brute animals. Does it
not sometimes make us shudder to hear tell of them, or to read them
in some chance publication which we take up? At one time it is the
wanton deed of barbarous and angry owners who ill-treat their