He has pretended that my religion, according to me, has received nothing by traditional and historical agencies; that it owes nothing to men who went before me; that I believe I have (in my single unassisted bosom) "a spiritual faculty so bright as to anticipate all essential[9] spiritual verities;" that had it not been for traditional religion, "we should everywhere have heard the invariable utterance of spiritual religion in the one dialect of the heart,"-- that "this divinely implanted faculty of spiritual discernment anticipates all external truth," &c.

&c.

I then adduced passages to show that his statement was emphatically and utterly contrary to fact.

In his "Defence," he thus replies, p.

75:-- "I say with an unfaltering conscience, that no controvertist ever more honestly and sincerely sought to give his opponent's views, than I did Mr.Newman's, after the most diligent study of his rather obscure books; and that whether I have succeeded or not in giving what he _thought_, I have certainly given what he _expressed_.