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298 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP TAIT [CH. xn.
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I do not think anything will be gained by my attempting
to discuss these matters in detail any longer.
"
Indeed, I have little to say, if you can really think that in
reply to a demand on behalf of Biblical students for trial by fixed
law after full argument in open court, it is enough to say that
you have given something wiser, kinder, and better. Such is the
doctrine of the Bishop of London. Such was not the doctrine
of that Tutor of Balliol whose lecture I still remember on the
difference between government by vo/xos and government by
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With regard to my own conduct, I can only say that nothing
on earth will induce me to^do
what you propose. I do not
judge for others, but in me it would be base and untrue.
"For the personal question between us, I cannot do more
than say what I said before, that such conduct has the effect (I
expressly said not the intention) of treachery. You did not
like my essay. Why did you not say so ? You were ready to
join in this denunciation. Why did you not imply it? You
ought not to make it impossible for a friend to calculate on what
you will do. I do not care for your severity. I do care for
being cheated.
" The greatest kindness you can now do me is to forget till all
this is over that any friendship ever existed between us. That
will at any rate save me from such mischief as your speech in
Convocation 1
yesterday is certain to do me. Yours faithfully,
" MY
"F. TEMPLE."
The Bis hop of London to the Rev. Dr. Temple.
"LONDON HOUSE, March 2, 61.
DEAR TEMPLE, I am quite ready to acquiesce in your
wish that after this note the subject of your essay should drop
between us. But I must just take the liberty of saying to you that
I am totally at a loss to understand the consistency, and propriety
I will not use any other word of making such a statement as I
know, not only from confidential communications, but openly
from a quarter where no confidence or secrecy is implied you
have made to your assembled masters, and what you now write
1 See page 302.