5, that he had ridiculed nothing but the things quoted above, he at length, in pp.

147-156, makes formal admission of my charge and _justifies himself_.

The pith of his general reply is in the following, p.

152:-- "'Now (says Mr.Newman) I will not here farther insist on the monstrosity of bringing forward St.Paul's words in order to pour contempt upon them; a monstrosity which no sophistry of Mr.Harrington can justify!' I think the _real_ monstrosity is, that men should so coolly employ St.Paul's words,--for it is a quotation from the treatise on the "Soul,"-- to mean something totally different from anything he intended to convey by them, and employ the dialect of the Apostles to contradict their doctrines; that is the monstrosity ...

It is very hard to conceive that Mr.Newman did not see this....