And more than this; it has sown in the hearts of young gentlemen and young ladies seed which will not perish; which, though it may develop into forms little expected by those who sowed it, will develop at least into a virtue more stately and reverent, more chivalrous and self-sacrificing, more genial and human, than can be learnt from that religion of the Stock Exchange, which reigned triumphant--for a year and a day--in the popular pulpits.
I have said, that Neo-Anglicanism has proved a failure, as seventeenth-century Anglicanism did.

The causes of that failure this book has tried to point out: and not one word which is spoken of it therein, but has been drawn from personal and too-intimate experience.

But now--peace to its ashes.

Is it so great a sin, to have been dazzled by the splendour of an impossible ideal?
Is it so great a sin, to have had courage and conduct enough to attempt the enforcing of that ideal, in the face of the prejudices of a whole nation?
And if that ideal was too narrow for the English nation, and for the modern needs of mankind, is that either so great a sin?
Are other extant ideals, then, so very comprehensive?
Does Mr. Spurgeon, then, take so much broader or nobler views of the capacities and destinies of his race, than that great genius, John Henry Newman?
If the world cannot answer that question now, it will answer it promptly enough in another five-and-twenty years.

And meanwhile let not the party and the system which has conquered boast itself too loudly.