I wouldn't write such another at the cost of the same pain for anything short of direct promotion into heaven." Of Kingsley himself Froude wrote* to another clerical friend, friend of a lifetime, Cowley Powles: "Kingsley is such a fine fellow--I almost wish, though, he wouldn't write and talk Chartism, and be always in such a stringent excitement about it all.

He dreams of nothing but barricades and provisional Governments and grand Smithfield bonfires, where the landlords are all roasting in the fat of their own prize oxen.

He is so musical and beautiful in poetry, and so rough and harsh in prose, and he doesn't know the least that it is because in the first the art is carrying him out of himself, and making him forget just for a little that the age is so entirely out of joint." A very fine and discriminating piece of criticism.
-- * April 10th, 1849.
-- The immediate effect of The Nemesis, the only effect it ever had, was disastrous.

Whatever else it might be, it was undoubtedly heretical, and in the Oxford of 1849 heresy was the unpardonable sin.

The Senior Tutor of Exeter, the Reverend William Sewell, burnt the book during a lecture in the College Hall.