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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 edition. Excerpt: ...doubt. I was not conscious to myself, on my conversion, of any difference of thought or of temper from what I had before. I was not conscious of firmer faith in the fundamental truths of revelation or of more self-command; I had not more fervour; but it was like coming into port after a rough sea; and my happiness on that score remains to this day without interruption." While at Oscott, Newman was taken by Wiseman to see a building, then used as a boys school, near to the college and belonging to it. " Bring your friends here," said Wiseman, " and carry on your studies for the priesthood, with the help of our professors at Oscott." Newman accepted the house, and called it " Maryvale." Thither he went, accompanied by Bowles, inside the coach from Oxford, on Monday, February 23, 1846. Stanton and St John had gone before to prepare the house, being clever in such arrangements; and Newmans own furniture and books--especially books--were on the road in five enormous vans. The chief work at Maryvale was the passing through the press of the Essay on the Development of Christian Doftrine, a book for which those who see in all natural facts but the symbols of spiritual truths found unexpected confirmation in the subsequent The Essay on Development 69 revelations of Darwin. Of this Essay, which supplies a key to unlock many a door of the Future, otherwise barricaded by the dtbris of the Past, Newman, in a letter from Mary vale, wrote as to certain objectors: " It does not pretend to be a dogmatic work. It is an external philosophical view--as in Paleys Evidences our Lord is spoken of as a young Jewish peasant. So the way in which the book approaches the Catholic Church is by phenomena, which phenomena, when we get inside the Church, do not...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217312875 |
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| ISBN-10 | 021731287X |
| Weight | 0.37 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.25 In |
| List Price | $8.00 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 104 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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