The men I have just mentioned agree, all of them, that Christ's moral example was perfect; and their only disagreement has been as to what that example was.

But the Protestant logic will by no means leave us here.

That alleged perfection, if we ourselves are to be the judges of it, is sure, by-and-by, to exhibit to us traces of imperfection.

And this is exactly the thing that has already begun to happen.

A generation ago one of the highest-minded and most logical of our English Protestants, Professor Francis Newman, declared that in Christ's character there were certain moral deficiencies;[40] and the last blow to the moral authority of Protestantism was struck by one of its own household.