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1863-68] EDUCATION MUST BE RELIGIOUS 533
"
I understood at our meeting that the intention was to
appoint a clergyman of the Church of England head-master, and
to leave him free to arrange the system with the Council. But
everything which has been published in the newspapers appears
to me to be written with a different view, and I feel that the time
has come when the real state of the case must be put forward. I
do not think it is fair to the public to leave any further doubt on
the subject, and I am sure you would not wish my name to be
used either as approving principles which I disapprove, or to con
ciliate to the scheme persons who are good enough to trust me,
while it is not intended that the views I can alone approve shall
prevail.
"
I leave it to yourself to determine how this difficulty is to
be met, but met I am sure it must be, or the scheme will fail
from not being honestly brought before the public in its true
colours. What you want is such a system for the middle class
as Rugby has long offered for the higher, with the exceptions
which the fact of your institution being a day school for London
boys necessitates. And I am sure the sooner you make this dis
tinctly known, either by the publication of this letter or otherwise,
the better. . . . Yours sincerely, A. C. LONDON."
And again, a few weeks later :-
"
I have no belief in a system which, whenever education
conies athwart direct religious teaching, as it must do continually,
tries to evade difficulties by an unworthy compromise."
Such extracts as this Chapter has exhibited from the
voluminous and varied correspondence of the Bishop s
London years might easily be multiplied. But a sufficient
picture has probably been presented of what were, during
those twelve years, his public life and policy. It would
be inappropriate, even if it were possible, to depict in like
manner the home-life of London House and Fulham
during his Episcopate. Some glimpses of that remarkable
home-life he has himself given to the world in the Memoirs
of his wife and son. In the spring of 1868 he purchased,
by means of a bequest which had been left him by a