CONTENTS. VI. Whether Mr. Newman's Distinction of Morally and Spirit- VIII. Showing that Facts are as intractable to the à priori 102 112 PROFESSOR NEWMAN, in the recent edition of the "Phases," has published a brief "Reply" to "The Eclipse of Faith." This book, he tells us, he should have preferred "to pass by unnoticed, only that its popularity gives it a weight which it has not in itself.”* He also says that his friends expected him to answer it. "Save me from my friends" is an excellent caution, which an author, above most men, will do well to bear in mind. It is almost as wise in such a case to listen to one's enemies. My own reasons for noticing the "Reply" are widely different; and one of them imperative. Mr. Newman has charged me with "stealthy misrepresentation and gross garbling." No man should allow himself to be so charged unjustly, (and I will venture to say that no controvertist has a more sincere abhorrence of any B |