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186 Postscript on Catholic Unity.
common ground of sympathy and a common
object to be aimed at.* Even the Dublin Review
admits in the abstract the importance of
"
Christian Re-union," and is able to
"
sincerely
recommend" that portion of my Letter (pp. 67-85)
which enlarges on the benefits that would
accrue from it. And we need not hesitate gladly
to accept the admission, though remembering
he alone wills
that, in Dr. Dollinger s words,
"
an end who wills the means without which it is
unattainable, and shows his will by his acts,"
we may find it difficult to understand the reality
of a desire for re-union in those who advocate
principles so hopelessly incompatible with its
attainment, unless through some miraculous
cataclysm (of which history presents no example)
in the whole tone and tendency of modern
thought, as well religious as irreligious. For,
while it is indeed certain that a revived
yearning for unity has deeply stirred the
minds of Christian men in this our it
age,
is no less clear that there is a growing re
such a basis of
pugnance on all sides to accept
as these writers would alone hold to be
unity
admissible. Even were I disposed (as I am not) to
consider a re-union on their principles the most
desirable in itself, I should still feel most strongly
* The article on English Converts in the September num
ber of Blackwood affords remarkable evidence of the interest
felt in Catholic matters where it would hardly have been
looked for.