aises the cry of heresy, and the Council of King's College deprive him
of the Professor's Chair.

The real difficulty--which Sterling deemed invincible--which has proved
too strong for Professor Maurice, is that, whilst there is such a thing
as development in religion, the Church of England is not the place for
it. The Church of England was a compromise; but it was a compromise
between Geneva and Rome, and a compromise now dating three hundred years.
It was never deemed that it would require a wider platform, or that it
would have in its pulpits men of larger vision or of more catholic view
than the men it had already. If it had a view at all, it took, like
Lot's wife, a backward glance to the tabernacle and its service--to the
law delivered amidst thunder and lightning on Sinai's sacred head. It
looked not to the future. It knew not that there were,

'Somewhere underneath the sun,
Azure heights yet unascended, palmy countries to be won.'

It made no provision for the growth of man's free and unfettered thought.
Consequently it is the Church of England only in name. Out of its pale,
divorced from it, there is more of intellectual life and independent
thought than there is in it. This is the condition of its existence. It
is associated with certain creeds and articles and rites: harmonizing
with them, you have a position in society, you have a certain yearly
stipend, and chances of something better, as Samuel of Oxford knows well.
The Church of England was never meant to be the nursery for thought. You
have made up your mind immediately you matriculate at her Universities.
Your career for the future is to maintain those articles. In a word, you
must conform. The task has been hard, and few great men have stooped to
it, and fewer still have done so and lived.

But a man must not quarrel with the conditions he has imposed on himself.
You have your choice. You wish to preach the truth. Well, you can do
so, in the Church or out of it; but in the one case you are more or less
tied. You may preach the truth; but it must be Church's truth, if you
take the Church's pay. Of course, this is a disagreeable position to an
independent man; at the same time, it is not without its corresponding
advantages. You get into good society, you have a respectable living,
you may marry an heiress, or become tutor to a Prime Minister or a
Prince. Outside the Church men of intellect generally have taken their
s