He had the desire, he tells us, to make himself thoroughly uncomfortable--as Byron would say, "to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell." His superstitions were often ludicrous even to himself.

On one occasion in boyhood, he was trying to get a fire to burn: "Let this be an omen," he said.

"If I can get this fire to burn, the Oxford Movement was justified." A visit to Belgium hastened the inevitable decision of such a temperament:.

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