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94 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. iv.
this great city, which pleases me even beyond what I had expected
-beyond even Athens itself? We are off for Tivoli to-morrow,
and leave Rome on Friday after Easter. I have seen the Pope,
and might say much on that head, but I forbear. I am sorry to
say that your prototype is very unlike you as well as unlike all
the casts of him very ethereal, but not giving me so much pleasure
as I expected. Ever yours, in a fever,
"A. P. STANLEY.
"Remember Hampden remember the Supra- and Sublapsarians
; remember me. But are the Heads representatives of the
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University , or are they not ? This* is, I think, very important, and
the question may throw light on a previous statement of mine.
"
Even have you (which indeed I trust you have) sent a letter
here, do not fail to send another to Genoa, reporting the progress
of this fearful drama. Of course you understand that I write,
being, as far as my knowledge goes, opposed to this demonstra
tion of yours."
" MY
Rev. A. C. Tait to Rev. A. P. Stanley.
"BALLIOL COLL., 16 April 1841.
DEAR CHILD, The hurried scenes through which I
have been passing, though they have prevented me from writing,
have made me think daily and hourly of you. When I set my
hand to that document of which you speak, your image was before
me. I rejoiced that you were not in Oxford, lest you should have
died of excitement ; but I could not help thinking that if your
nerves had allowed you to think, you would have approved of
must have noted this sentence :
my act. If you saw our letter you
We readily admit the necessity of allowing that liberty in inter
preting the formularies of our Church which has been advocated
by many of its most learned Bishops and other eminent divines ;
but this Tract puts forth new and startling views as to the extent
to which that liberty may be carried. For if we are right in our
apprehension of the author s meaning, we are at a loss to see
what security would remain, were his principles generally recog
nised, that the most plainly erroneous doctrines and practices of
the Church of Rome might not be inculcated in the lecture-rooms
of the University, and from the pulpits of our churches. You will
at once recognise the pen from which the first clause in this sen
tence flowed. When you read No. 90 I think you will allow that