t only into popular churches and fashionable
chapels, and the columns of newspapers, but "into the House of
Commons."

And the writer of the article goes on:--

Now, if there be any truth in these remarks, it is plainly idle and
perverse to refer the change of opinions which is now going on to the
acts of two or three individuals, as is sometimes done. Of course
every event in human affairs has a beginning; and a beginning implies
a when, and a where, and a by whom, and how. But except in these
necessary circumstance, the phenomenon in question is in a manner
quite independent of things visible and historical. It is not here or
there; it has no progress, no causes, no fortunes: it is not a
movement, it is a spirit, it is a spirit afloat, neither "in the
secret chambers" nor "in the desert," but everywhere. It is within us,
rising up in the heart where it was least expected, and working its
way, though not in secret, yet so subtly and impalpably, as hardly to
admit of precaution or encounter on any ordinary human rules of
opposition. It is an adversary in the air, a something one and entire,
a whole wherever it is, unapproachable and incapable of being
grasped, as being the result of causes far deeper than political or
other visible agencies, the spiritual awakening of spiritual wants.

Nothing can show more strikingly the truth of this representation than
to refer to what may be called the theological history of the
individuals who, whatever be their differences from each other on
important or unimportant points, yet are associated together in the
advocacy of the doctrines in question. Dr. Hook and Mr. Churton
represent the High Church dignitaries of the last generation; Mr.
Perceval, the Tory aristocracy; Mr. Keble is of the country clergy,
and comes from valleys and woods, far removed both from notoriety and
noise; Mr. Palmer and Mr. Todd are of Ireland; Dr. Pusey became what
he is from among the Universities of Germany, and after a severe and
tedious analysis of Arabic MSS. Mr. Dodsworth is said to have begun in
the study of Prophecy; Mr. Newman to have been much indebted to the
friendship of Archbishop Whately; Mr. Froude, if any one, gained his
views from his own mind. Others have passed over from Calvinism and
kindred religions.

Years afterwards, and in changed circumstances, the same writer has left
the following record of what came before h