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288 LIFE ()1 ; AKCHUISHOP TAIT [CH. xn.
His Grace s letter to the Rev. H. B. Williams, signed by yourself
and the other Bishops, was a reply.
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I find among the other extracts which are given as contain
ing opinions against which the Address protests, a passage from
my own Essay, on the Education of the World.
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In His Grace s reply, these opinions are declared to appear
to him and His Right Reverend Brethren to be essentially at
variance with the fundamental doctrines of our Church.
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I hope your Lordship will not think me to be asking more
than I have a fair right to claim if I request you to be so kind
as to inform me with what fundamental doctrines that extract
from my Essay appears to you to be at variance.
"Your Lordship will not, I think, object to my making a
public use of your answer. Your obedient servant,
" MY
"F. TEMPLE."
TJic Bishop of London to tJie Rev. Dr. Temple.
"LONDON HOUSE, Feb. 22^, 1861.
DEAR TEMPLE, I have received yours of yesterday s
date.
" You must have made some mistake respecting the Address
to which you suppose the Archbishop of Canterbury s letter,
signed by the Bishops, to be a reply. No Extracts from your
Essay on the
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Education of the World were contained in, or
appended to, any address either of the Rev. H. B. Williams or
any other brought under my notice or laid before the Bishops
by His Grace.
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For my own part I draw a marked distinction between the
tone and substance of the several contributions to the book
called Essays and Reviews. I shaU be ready to state publicly, if
you desire it, what is my opinion of your essay, taken by itself.
But the public appears, I must say not unnaturally, resolved to
regard the volume as one whole.
"Without entering on other points to which I object, I will
say that, when taken as a whole^ the teaching of the volume is,
in my judgment, not consistent with the true doctrine main
tained by our Church as to the office of Holy Scripture.
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I feel convinced that there is much in this volume of which