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 ] shifting sands of party warfare, instead of establishing her cause on the solid rock of principles!"

This noble appeal was unfortunately denounced by Bishop Ullathorne of Birmingham in a Pastoral wholly devoted to its refutation. What particularly disturbed the Bishop's mind was the distinction which Acton drew between a true and a false religion: that one judged all things by the standard of their truth, the other by the touchstone of its own interests. It appeared to Ullathorne that

Thus was Acton misunderstood. And Bishop Ullathorne concluded by condemning the journal as "containing propositions which are respectively subversive of the faith, heretical, approaching to heresy, erroneous, derogatory to the teaching of the Church, and offensive to pious ears."

Notwithstanding this severe rebuke Acton continued to persevere.

The suppression of Lord Acton's brilliant but short-lived Home and Foreign Review ilustrates the restraints