"The Unitarians seem to me to throw over what is most beautiful in the Christian Doctrine; but the Formulists, on the other side, stir up a dust, in which it appears excusable not to see." To which he replies (Aug.

17): "Dearest, I know your very meaning, in what you said of religion, and responded to it with my whole soul--what you express now is for us both, ...

those are my own feelings, my convictions beside--instinct confirmed by reason." [Footnote 34: _E.B.B.to R.B._, 15th Aug.

1846.] [Footnote 35: Ib.] These words of Browning's seem to furnish the clue to the relation between their minds in this matter.

Their intercourse disturbed no conviction on either side, for their convictions were identical.