(Vol.x.

p.
208):-- "Our readers will be able to judge how well qualified the author is to sneer at Mr.Newman's metaphysics, which are far more accurate than his own, or to ridicule his logic.

The tone of contempt which he habitually assumes preposterously reverses the relative intellectual _status_, so far as sound systematic thought is concerned, of the two men." I do not quote this as testimony to myself but as testimony that others, as well as I, feel the _contemptuous tone_ assumed by my adversary in precisely that subject on which modesty is called for.

On metaphysics there is hitherto an unreconciled diversity among men who have spent their lives in the study; and a large part of the endless religious disputes turns on this very fact.

However, the being told, in a multitude of ingenious forms, that I am a wretched logician, is not likely to raffle my tranquillity.