n education 219
Its spiritual influence 220
How far clergymen who dissent from parts of its
theology can remain within it 221
Newman on a Latitudinarian establishment 223
Obligations imposed on the clergy by the fact of
Establishment 224
Attitude of laymen towards the Church 225
Increasing sense of the relativity of belief 226
This tendency strengthens with age 227
The conflict between belief and scepticism 229
Power of religion to undergo transformation 229
Probable influence of the sacerdotal spirit on the
Church 231

CHAPTER XII

THE MANAGEMENT OF CHARACTER

A sound judgment of our own characters essential to moral
improvement 235
Analogies between character and taste 236
The strongest desire generally prevails, but desires may be
modified 238
Passions and habits 239
Exaggerated regard for the future.--A happy childhood 239
Choice of pleasures.--Athletic games 240
The intellectual pleasures 242
Their tendency to enhance other pleasures.--Importance of
specialisation 243
And of judicious selection 243
Education may act specially on the desires or on the will 245
Modern education and tendencies of the former kind 245
Old Catholic training mainly of the will.--Its effects 247
Anglo-Saxon types in the seventeenth century 248
Capriciousness of willpower--heroism often succumbs to vice 249
Courage--its varieties and inconsistencies 250
The circumstances of life the school of will.--Its place in
character 251
Dangers of an early competence.--Choice of work 252
Choice of friends.--Effect of early friendship on character 254
Mastery of will over thoughts.--Its intellectual importance 255
Its importance in moral culture 255
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