But he was beyond all question stubbornly prejudiced against spiritualists.

Whether the medium Home was or was not a scoundrel it is somewhat difficult in our day to conjecture.

But in so far as he claimed supernatural powers, he may have been as honest a gentleman as ever lived.

And even if we think that the moral atmosphere of Home is that of a man of dubious character, we can still feel that Browning might have achieved his purpose without making it so obvious that he thought so.

Some traces again, though much fainter ones, may be found of something like a subconscious hostility to the Roman Church, or at least a less full comprehension of the grandeur of the Latin religious civilisation than might have been expected of a man of Browning's great imaginative tolerance.