insists upon its being in bad humour with all other communions.

It seems to me, therefore, that while in substance we should all
strive to sustain her in her national position, we shall do well on
her behalf to follow these rules: to part earlier, and more freely
and cordially, than heretofore with such of her privileges, here
and there, as may be more obnoxious than really valuable, and some
such she has; and further, not to presume too much to give
directions to the state as to its policy with respect to other
religious bodies.... This is not political expediency as opposed to
religious principle. Nothing did so much damage to religion as the
obstinate adherence to a negative, repressive, and coercive course.
For a century and more from the Revolution it brought us nothing
but outwardly animosities and inwardly lethargy. The revival of a
livelier sense of duty and of God is now beginning to tell in the
altered policy of the church.... As her sense of her spiritual work
rises, she is becoming less eager to assert her exclusive claim,
leaving that to the state as a matter for itself to decide; and she
also begins to forego more readily, but cautiously, her external
prerogatives.

FOOTNOTES:

[181] Some proceedings, I think, of Mr. Disraeli and his Young England
friends.

[182] Chapter of Autobiography: _Gleanings_, vii. pp. 142-3.

[183] On Reserve in Communicating Religious Knowledge--Tracts 80 and 87.
(1837-40). With the ominous and in every sense un-English
superscription, _Ad Clerum_. Isaac Williams was the author.

[184] _Life of Shaftesbury_, i. p. 377. There is a letter from Bunsen
(p. 373), in which he exclaims how wonderful it is 'that the
great-grandson of Anthony Earl of Shaftesbury, the friend of Voltaire,
should write thus to the great-grandson of Frederick the Great, the
admirer of both.' But not more wonderful than Bunsen forgetting that
Frederick had no children.

[185] See _Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott_, i. chapters 15-17. _Apologia_,
chapter 3, _ad fin._

[186] _Story of Dr. Pusey's Life_, p. 227.

[187] This letter of October 28 is in Purcell, _Manning_, i. p. 242.

[188] Mr. Gladstone to Dr. Hook, Jan. 30. '47.

[189] It was on the fifth of November, a week after this correspondence,
that Manning preached the Guy Fawkes sermon which caused Newman to send
J. A. Froude to the door to tell Manning tha