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 130 Ward's extravagance. And to none were his methods more repugnant than they were to John Henry Newman. By a singular grace, Newman escaped the convert's proverbial temptation—that of carrying new beliefs to all possible extremes. He had affinities with the Dublin Review and with Lord Acton's Journals. But he was keenly conscious of the defects of both. He thought the one lacking in regard for authority, the other in reverence for fact. He was very far from identifying himself with either.

When Ward attempted to enlist Newman in his Infallibility campaign, Newman's characteristic sincerity did not attempt to conceal the repugnance with which he viewed the proposal.

But Newman despaired of inducing his fellow Romanists to attend to history.

"Nothing would be better," he wrote, "than a historical review. But who would bear it? Unless one doctored all one's facts one would be thought a bad Catholic. The truth is, there is a keen conflict going on just now between two parties one in the Church, one out of it; and at such seasons extreme views alone are in favour, and a man who is not extravagant is thought treacherous. I sometimes think of King Lear's daughters, and consider that they, after