The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-07-03

brought many lights to bear on an idea, and had
| Viewed IL In such different relations rs to
enable him to place It before the reader In tho
nnkedness OF truth. Though endowed with
the delicate senslbility OF o poet. Newman
never permitted sentiment or inclination or
confirmed habit to control or divert the severe
| logic OF his intellect. proof OF this IL the
oxtrome caution with which he took tho most
| important step In his long career. His sym
pathies had gone forth to tho Catholic Church
many years before argument had irresistibly
pointed out the way that no should follow.
He held aloot until his reason had become en-
tirely convinced. and he oven held bask others
for years from entering her communion. While
Protostants QUESTION: ed his honesty md Catho.
lies feared he might DO trining with grace. ho
waited until the truth had grown npon him
from the gray OF dawn TIL the full light Of day.
Our author regards tho logical acutencss OF
Newman ns something marvellous The
analyzing power Of his mind was searching
and exhaustive; its introspoction seemed to
be oil seeing. He understood so we'll tho CHI ccks
and disabilities OF the human intellect that no
was never satisfied to accept an idea for the
reasons on Its face. Like En- erson. he regard
cd verbal logic as mere provisional scairod-
ing: he went behind the formal demonstra-
tion to what he considered the far more pow
erful motives OF crodibilty. Newman. how
ever wns not vewey. rs was Emcrson he
abhorred vngucnoss. and lived in clearly do
fined world OF his own. He had his own point
OF WOW and his own charming manner NJ
clothing n truth, but he was alwars cnr.fu, TO
make allowance for the p,rson,l claimant that
might refract his vision or def,cct his inf,r-
ence. Tho author OF these ESSAYS liscerns
in tho advice which Newman gave to a cor.
respondent one OF the secrets OF tho
strength which no displayed In controversy,
and with which he 40 efrectuallv overwhelmed
his opponents: DO sure YOU rrasp fully any
Wow which you seek to combat. md lenye no
room for doubt about your own meaning"
or course, Ncwman's mind differed from
Emerson's In that It was. above all, religious.
For him religion was an intense reality. II So
cred tunc. clothing all his thoughts and
making them holy and earnest. an essential
part Of his existence the life of his life. For
him. moreover, religion was not based upon
sentiment but upon clear-cut doctrines and
well-deflned principles. All thoughts, all
questions. grouped themselves In his mind
around one central ideu. tho Fundamental
dogma OF the Catholic Church. Every sermon,
every essay. every trentise. in the eight and
thirty volumes penned by his hand, reveals a
soul always on the search. always struggling
with difficulties always solving to itself the
problems and issues Of the day, always mr.
ORDER its own views and opinions. and always
for one object and with one result that Of
harmonizing them with the teachings of ro-
liCion. The thoughts and ouestioninps md
theories against which other strong and woll-
equipped intclocts struggled. only to be made
captives OF irrelcion and agnosticism, he also
wrostled with and BEGAN, @ thor master
II.
Fruitful in suggestion also. Is the paper in
which Brother Azarias undertakes to dis
tinguish between scientific and literary habits
OF thought. He recognizes the fundamen
difference between them in tho fact that
literature is personal in its method. and
to q great extent in its object; science.
on the other hand. Is impersonaI, both
In its subject matter and in its treat
ment. Literature deals with persons and
things only so far as they affect human beings;
every written composition that appeals to the
emotional element In our nature may be ro-
garded US literature. Science deals with per-
sons and things as they are in themselves or
in co0rdinnted relation. Science. in word is
concerned with tho true as true and not as
beautiful or interesting. Its object is truth.
Literature has wider field. 1t surveys the true
and the false. the good and the evil the beau-
titul and the deformed. and moulds them all to
it's own purposes. ultimately with the view Of
acting upon mans feelings: now arousng his
curiosity. now exciting his wonder and admira-
ton. again working upon his sympathy and
stirring his soul Science works within narrow
and closely defined lines. growing impatient Of
all that does not bear upon tho question under
consideration and rejecting it as distraction.
Tolitorature. on the other hand, nothing comes
amiss The thought apparently furthest
removed from the main idea may throw upon
it additional light All that science or art or
nature can contribute. tho literary mind makes
its own. not for the sake OF science or art or
nature. nor by way OF determining some I'M
known truth. nor OF reaching some scientific
discovery. but as 80 many illustrations draw
ing out. exem IMPLYING clearing up more vivid
~ the ideal which it has grasped and which 1t
labors to express. To every literary mind may
be made and made with as little real rele.
yancy. the reproach that the sophist Culliclcs
addressed to Socrates: by tho gods. You
never stop talking about shoemakers. fullers.
cooks. and physicians, as though our dis.
course were OF those" All such illustrations