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22; and because he believes that it will be "unspeakably[18] painful" to the orthodox for whom I do _not_ intend it, he prints the greater part of it in an Appendix, and expresses his regret that he cannot publish "every syllable of it," p.22.Such is his tender regard for the feeling of his co-religionists. My defender in the "Prospective Review" wound up as follows (x.
p. 227):-- "And now we have concluded our painful task, which nothing but a feeling of what justice--literary, and personal--required, would have induced us to undertake.
The tone of intellectual disparagement and moral rebuke which certain critics,--deceived by the shallowest sophisms with which an unscrupulous writer could work on their prepossessions and insult their understandings--have adopted towards Mr.Newman made exposure necessary.
The length to which our remarks have extended requires apology.
Evidence to character is necessarily cumulative, and not easily compressible within narrow limits.
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