it, have been written under such conditions
or in such a spirit. The reader must have felt himself face to face with
a real man, profoundly moved by genuine thoughts and troubled as only
the most able and honest men are troubled, by the contrast between our
accustomed commonplaces and our real beliefs. Most of his articles are
written in a strain of solid and generally calm common sense; and some,
no doubt, must have been of the kind compared by his father to singing
without inflated lungs--mere pieces of routine taskwork. Yet, as I have
already shown, by his allegory of the ship, there was always a strong
vein of intense feeling upon certain subjects, restrained as a rule by
his dislike to unveiling his heart too freely and yet making itself
perceptible in some forcible phrase and in the general temper of mind
implied. The great mass of such work is necessarily of ephemeral
interest; and it is painful to turn over the old pages and observe what
a mould of antiquity seems to have spread over controversies so exciting
only thirty years ago. We have gone far in the interval; though it is
well to remember that we too shall soon be out of date, and our most
modern doctrines lose the bloom of novelty. There are, however, certain
lights in which even the most venerable discussions preserve all their
freshness. Without attempting any minute details, I will endeavour to
indicate the points characteristic of my brother's development.

There was one doctrine which he expounds in many connections, and which
had a very deep root in his character. It appears, for example, in his
choice of a profession; decided mainly by the comparison between the
secular and the spiritual man. The problem suggested to him by Lord
Palmerston shows another application of the same mode of thought. What
is the true relation between the Church and the world; or between the
monastic and ascetic view of life represented by Newman and the view of
the lawyer or man of business? To him, as I have said, God seemed to be
more palpably present in a court of justice than in a monastery; and
this was not a mere epigram expressive of a transitory mood. Various
occurrences of the day led him to apply his views to questions connected
with the Established Church. After the 'Essays and Reviews' had ceased
to be exciting there were some eager discussions about Colenso, and his
relations as Bishop of Natal to the Bishop of Capetown. Controversies
between liberal Catholics