ked up in
the caverns of his gloomy heart, and shown fitfully to one or two whom he
took in there. But it was not good to visit that place. People did not
remain there long, and suffered for having been there. He shrank away
from all affections sooner or later. Stella and Vanessa both died near
him, and away from him. He had not heart enough to see them die. He
broke from his fastest friend, Sheridan; he slunk away from his fondest
admirer, Pope. His laugh jars on one's ear after seven score years. He
was always alone--alone and gnashing in the darkness, except when
Stella's sweet smile came and shone upon him. When that went, silence
and utter night closed over him. An immense genius: an awful downfall
and ruin. So great a man he seems to me, that thinking of him is like
thinking of an empire falling. We have other great names to
mention--none I think, however, so great or so gloomy.

[1] From the English Humourists of the Eighteenth Century.

THE IDEA OF A UNIVERSITY

BY

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

_INTRODUCTORY NOTE_

_John Henry Newman was born in London, February 21, 1801. Going up to
Oxford at sixteen, he gained a scholarship at Trinity College, and
after graduation became fellow and tutor of Oriel, then the most alive,
intellectually, of the Oxford colleges. He took orders, and in 1828
was appointed vicar of St. Mary's, the university church. In 1832 he
had to resign his tutorship on account of a difference of opinion with
the head of the college as to his duties and responsibilities, Newman
regarding his function as one of a "substantially religious nature."_

_Returning to Oxford the next year from a journey on the Continent, he
began, in cooperation with R. H. Froude and others, the publication of
the "Tracts for the Times," a series of pamphlets which gave a name to
the "Tractarian" or "Oxford" movement for the defence of the "doctrine
of apostolical succession and the integrity of the Prayer-Book." After
several years of agitation, during which Newman came to exercise an
extraordinary influence in Oxford, the movement and its leader fell
under the official ban of the university and of the Anglican bishops,
and Newman withdrew from Oxford, feeling that the Anglican Church had
herself destroyed the defences which he had sought to build for her.
In October, 1845, he was received into the Roman Church._

_The next year he went to Rome, and on his return introduced into
England t