Enough has been said to show that there is not an art discreditable in controversy, to which recourse is not freely had in the 'Eclipse of Faith' and the Defence of it." The reader must judge for himself whether this severe and terrible sentence of the reviewer proceeds from ill-temper and personal mortification, as the author of the Eclipse and its Defence gratuitously lays down, or whether it was prompted by a sense of justice, as he himself affirms.
[Footnote 1: The "Eclipse" had previously been noticed in the same review, on the whole favourably, by a writer of evidently a different religious school, and before I had exposed the evil arts of my assailant.] [Footnote 2: The authorship is since acknowledged by Mr.Henry Rogers, in the title to his article on Bishop Butler in the "Encyclopaedia Britannica."] [Footnote 3: That is, my "discovery" that the writer of the "Eclipse of Faith" grossly misquotes and misinterprets me.] [Footnote 4: Page 225, he says, that each criticism "is quite worthy of Mr.Newman's _friend_, defender and admirer;" assuming a fact, in order to lower my defender's credit with his readers.] [Footnote 5: As he puts "artful dodge" into quotation marks, his readers will almost inevitably believe that this vulgar language is mine.

In the same spirit to speaks of me as "making merry" with a Book Revelation; as if I had the slightest sympathy or share in the style and tone which pervades the "Eclipse." But there is no end of such things to be denounced.] [Footnote 6: Italics in the original.] [Footnote 7: In the ninth edition, p.

104, I find that to cover the formal falsehood of these words, he adds: "what he calls his arguments are assertions only," still withholding that which would confute him.] [Footnote 8: I will here add, that this "stinking fly"-- the parenthesis ("in a certain stage of development")--was added merely to avoid dogmatizing on the question, how early in human history or in human life this mysterious notion of the divine spirit is recognizable as commencing.] [Footnote 9: If the word _essential_ is explained away, _this_ sentence may be attenuated to a truism.] [Footnote 10: Paul to the Corinthians, 1st Ep.

ii.] [Footnote 11: This clause is too strong.

"Expect _direct_ spiritual results," might have been better.] [Footnote 12: The substance of what I wrote was this.