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 140 of confidence, but outside in the political and religious world"—the calm of the Dublin Review, for instance, and the passionate rhetoric of Ward.

Manning further predicts that if this doctrine were defined, it would be at once received throughout the world with "universal joy and unanimity." Nothing can prove more clearly than these words how completely the theory with which he was identified fired his imagination, and warped his judgment.

Manning entirely failed to carry the English Romanists with him. The English Bishops at Rome elected Grant, not Manning, as their candidate for the Commission of Faith. And the Archbishop was adopted by the Italians. He complained of his English colleagues, that "of those who ought to have defended Infallibility not one spoke. The laity were averse and impatient. They would not read." Some, however, did read, among them Lord Acton, who characterised those Pastorals as "elaborate absurdities." They were read also by De Lisle, who was amazed at Manning's theory on the case of Honorius.

Most significant is the contrast of type between Manning and Newman within the Communion of Rome.

"Manning," says Thureau Dangin, "like other converts in the ardour of their new faith, and in reaction against the Protestant spirit from which he had escaped, considered that he could not go too far in conceptions