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 That these documents should confirm the Apologia is comprehensible enough, for they were mostly in Newman's hands when he wrote it, and have practically been edited by him before now being given to the world. Here and there we catch a glimpse of editorial motive: thus the note on vol. i. p. 476, 'First mention of Pusey's name,' and the entries from Newman's Journal, vol. ii. p. 24, giving details of Pusey's movements, were clearly intended to dissociate Pusey's name from the 'Movement.' Yet it remains to be proved whether the impetus and force given to it by Pusey's social position were not vital to the development of the 'Movement.' As Mr. Meynell points out, it was Newman's family connections, or rather want of them, that threw the direction of the 'Movement' into Pusey's hands, and gave rise to the popular epithet 'Puseyite.' These are, however, almost the only instances of pettiness to be observed in these volumes, unless the reference to Golightly, vol. i. p. 165 ('he is better to know than to see'), can be regarded as such. But the intense minuteness in personal details shows an amount of self-will and self-opinion in Newman which is extraordinary in a man of such genuine modesty.

The total impression given by the details of the 'Movement' confirms the general idea