28. If a man must fall in love, it should be in the reverential way of Sir Kenneth in the Talisman. 29. It would be a decided recommendation to that he should hate But will you allow me in electing a [ANS. I don't like that word. People have no right to feel that, till they have more knowledge and age.] I allow hatred is an imperfect state, but I think it is just young people that it becomes. Thes had it to a remarkable degree. The most difficult virtue to attain, seems to me the looking on wanton oppressors as mere machines, without feeling any personal resentment. that a person, who would feel hatred at a man who had committed some atrocious insult on those dearest to him, that such a person should feel hatred against [ANS. In some cases, as of a savage, it would require no very high degree of Christian virtue not to feel it.] Nor should I wish a person to feel it against a fool who talked as — does; but is a clever fellow, and knows very well what he is about. [ANs. No; none but a very wise and good man can know that-can know his error is not from ignorance, such as that of a savage. Young men can see that immorality in those who have been taught what is right implies a perverted heart—not so easily of an opinion.] Well, but shows a hatred and contempt for parts of the saintly character, which is equivalent to immorality; as for example, of the temper which does not see and yet believes. 30. I want it to be shown that the Jewish reli gion was 66 spiritual." I am sure all forms are spoken of as disrespectfully in the Old Testament as in the New. 31. Protestants have ingeniously converted the words, "This is my body," i. e. "the mysterious gift of which I spoke," (John vi.) into "my body is [only] this." Of course the words are an economythey make it a metaphor. 32. One of the Tracts for the Times speaks of the Millennium being ushered in by mutual confessions on the part of all branches of the Church. If so, we should cut the worst figure of all, after the way we have blasphemed Tradition and the Sacraments. 33. I cannot fancy a more magnificent position than Ken's would have been, if he had boldly excommunicated all who acknowledged the state Bishops, and carried on the succession. [ANS. Excommunication is a strong measure.] Oh, William would have taken no measures against him; he would only have been despised. [ANS. I mean harsh on the clergy.] Well,-deprived them. 34. [With his death in prospect.] Do you know the story of the murderer who had done one good thing in his life? Well, if I was ever asked what good deed I have ever done, I should say I had *brought and -to understand each other. APPENDIX 1. EXTRACTS FROM JOURNAL. March 23, 1827. If I do not resume my rules with strictness, I shall become dreadfully selfindulgent, and go down the hill quickly. It is hard, without having made some positive resolution, to sit by and see others eating, and take no part myself: and then some excuse comes into my head about my health, or the inexpediency of wasting vigour by abstinence. Lately, too, I have recognized some things in myself which make me fancy I am not so far emancipated from other people's opinions as I hoped to be; and that my quiescence arises rather from the absence of temptation, than indifference to the things which used to tempt me. I have been provoked in my heart at being talked to by as if I knew nothing of the arts, and at hearing that 1 [Since the above was printed, the following continuation of the Author's private Journal has come to hand.] |