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 great Taskmaster's eye. He seems to have ever lived in the spirit of that childish fancy of his, that the men around him were angels disguised in human form—in other words, that God and he were the only noumenal realities of the world. It was characteristic of his whole tone of thought that in dealing with what seemed to be a purely logical problem in his Grammar of Assent, he postulated a new sense—the Illative Sense—clearly for the one purpose of giving validity to faith. Logician as he was, he subordinated here, as elsewhere, the claims of logic to the claims of theology.

What was it, then, that caused 'Newmanism' to be ultimately ineffective and led Newman further and further away from the main currents of English thought and feeling? All these rich forces of his spiritual nature were tyrannised over by a subtle intellect and a passion for logical consequence which is furthest removed from English habits of mind, and may, perhaps, be traced to his Huguenot mother, as it has been equally exemplified, though in an opposite direction, by Professor Newman, the Cardinal's brother. No Frenchman could be more consequent in following logic to an absurdity than Newman. Now English institutions, whether of State or Church, are founded on compromise, or