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Postscript on Catholic Unity. 185
more singular in the hostility than in the
habitual inaccuracy of his strictures. But I
shall only refer to them so far as the course of
the argument may require, for it would be alike
unprofitable and out of place
to enter into
detailed controversy with my critics here.* Nor
can I do more than offer a general acknowledg
ment for the many kindly and appreciative
notices which little my work has elicited in
journals, both English and foreign,
differ
ing for the most part
in sentiment both
from each other and from mvself, and thus
/
affording
clearer and more reliable evidence
of the growing recognition among various, not
to say antagonistic, schools of the importance
of unity and the imperative duty of striving to
regain it. In this conviction, thank GOD,
Catholic and Protestant, Greek and Latin,
to find a
Anglican and Dissenter, are coming
* I may take this opportunity, however, of withdrawing an
incidental allusion in my pamphlet complained of by the
" "
editor of the Dublin, to his somewhat tardy admission
of the purely private and unofficial character of that journal.
It seems that he wrote to the Weekly Register to correct the
current misconception on the point, as soon as he became
aware of it. But I had not seen or heard of his letter, and
meanwhile it was only natural to suppose him cognisant of
a belief so widely prevalent as to be freely used for the sup
pression of opinions adverse to those of the Eeview or even
vindication from its censures, while the Bishop of Clifton
had thought it sufficiently important to require a public con
tradiction. While I regret my mistake, it is satisfactory
to know that there can be none on the matter itself for
the future.