Fitzgerald, P: Fifty Years of Catholic Life and Social Progr

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Fitzgerald, P: Fifty Years of Catholic Life and Social Progr

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Excerpt from Fifty Years of Catholic Life and Social Progress Under Cardinals Wiseman, Manning, Vaughan, and Newman, Vol. 2: With an Account of the Various Personages, Events, and Movements During the Era

Opposition was felt everywhere, and where not felt was dreaded.

One veils one's eyes with a sense of pain at heart as one reads - not without curiosity - what Mr. Purcell sets forward as a picture of vulgar contention between the two powers. One may lament the paltry details, the angry letters interchanged, written in heat, and perhaps regretted as soon as sent, but so recklessly printed. There is, as I have said, a larger and truer view. It was really the con¿ict of principles or policies, and the struggle was between these. It is impossible, therefore, to leave out of any review of the past half-century the personal presence of Dr. Newman and its spreading and overshadowing in¿uence. The very moral weight of this force was a serious hindrance - it was unrecognised, unclothed with authority; yet it seemed irresistible. The whole was a curious and interesting spectacle. Our modern Hildebrand of the English Church found himself in his course checked and harried and disturbed by it. It destroyed the perfect symmetry of his policy. In short, it came to this on one side was the Cardinal, who, with all his English sympathies and feelings.

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