uch of the ballast as of the sail':--

Sometimes it may be necessary in dealing with a very ancient
institution to make terms, as it were, between such an institution
and the actual spirit of the age. This may be in certain
circumstances a necessary, but it can never be a satisfactory,
process. It is driving a bargain, and somewhat of a wretched
bargain. But I really do not find or feel that this is the case now
before us. In that case, my view, right or wrong, is this: that
Oxford is far behind her duties or capabilities, not because her
working men work so little, but because so large a proportion of
her children do not work at all, so large a proportion of her
resources remains practically dormant, and her present constitution
is so ill-adapted to developing her real but latent powers. What I
therefore anticipate is not the weakening of her distinctive
principles, not the diminution of her labour, already great, that
she discharges for the church and for the land, but a great
expansion, a great invigoration, a great increase of her numbers, a
still greater increase of her moral force, and of her hold upon the
heart and mind of the country.

ADMISSION OF DISSENTERS

Pusey seems to have talked of the university as ruined and overthrown by
a parricidal hand; Oxford would be lost to the church; she would have to
take refuge in colleges away from the university. Oxford had now
received its death-blow from Mr. Gladstone and the government to which
he belonged, and he could no longer support at election times the worker
of such evil, and must return to that inactivity in things political,
from which only love and confidence for Mr. Gladstone had roused him.
'Personally,' the good man adds, 'I must always love you.' To Pusey, and
to all who poured reproach upon him from this side, Mr. Gladstone
replied with inexhaustible patience. He never denied that parliamentary
intervention was an evil, but he submitted to it in order to avert
greater evil. 'If the church of England has not strength enough to keep
upright, this will soon appear in the troubles of emancipated Oxford: if
she has, it will come out to the joy of us all in the immensely
augmented energy and power of the university for good. If Germanism and
Arnoldism are now to carry the day at Oxford (I mean supposing the bill
is carried into law), they will ca