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Xv.—Notices Of Books. ^^
XV . —NOTICES OF BOOKS . _^^
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--- - 1 . _—Tlwrndale ; or B the lackwood Conflict of S O _pin , ions London . By . William Smith .
We have herewithin the moderate bounds of a thick octavo , a tiltg ing ical -ground speculation , as , it . were The , for Poet the , breaks the kni Utop ghts ian lance of , intellectual the and Pseudo retreats - and materi leaving theolo alist - ,
the Catholiceach in his turn a , the field open , for his opponent . It in is a graceful at all and events polished it
tournamentandif it settle no point dispute , , passes mailed in warrior brilliant , , of array Materialism the gold- the clad silver knight -trumpet of Utop heralded ia , the black and
battle gorgeousl for y his attired cause champ the interest ion of , Cath and sympath olicism ; y and of , the as reader each does will
wax or decrease as his , affections and convictions tend towards the one or the other . Protestantism , with its denial of church auat door
vai thority to n spec striven , _\ ilation and its to , which ri close ght of its and private more the orthodox jud solution gment of members , opened which have the once C since hristian a in
world awaits . Driven , from pillar to post , assenting here and dissenting there , often splitting immediate hairs influence over a distinction of Protestantism without has a
' been difference to promote , the direct dissension of faith and trivial and strife it , to be constitute on the surface creeds but and wide sects with differences may ,
and widening at heart . , Faith without -works , and works without faithis the open controversial field upon which Protestantism has
waged of the , , opposin and still leg wages ions , there its fiercest exists attacks a diversity . But of within opinion the , a separa camps
-• tion which of interests -while it g , weakens a spirit of the aggression body corporate , in fine , , reacts a want upon of unanimit the indi y - ,
vidual , with deadly effect . Men question and rebel , cut off something root of doubt here branch , they , and buoy borne add themselves an beneath other somethin their up as han g they d there by best . some Flounderin can opposing , catching g current in at a the sea ,
or which bears on its swollen and turbid -waters evidences of devasta-Protestan infidel tion going perchance tism on presents elsewh to-morrow ere the . anomalous O ; rthodox now over p yesterday henomenon -bold , and , dissenting of anon a bod over y without - to timid -day , ;
a head , disorganised members uncontrolled by the will , legs runand ning if hither we leave and thither the , bod arms for striking the soul out — blin chaos dly ri and ght confusion and left . ;
y Whither does all this tend ?—Back to the _" Mother Church , " which alone stands firm and unmoved , or on to a purer and nobler faith of
which these doubts and struggles are but the birth-throes ? " A
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 124, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/52/
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