_That_ they could understand.

Arthur arrived at his principles purely through logical methods and intellectual operations.

He could not, he often confessed, separate the intellectual and the spiritual.

From some expressions, however, which dropped from him in a letter, part of which is given on p.

209, I am vaguely aware that he was reconsidering that point (and it has been suggested to me that such an explanation will suit his last words); but, in any case, he was of the greatest possible comfort to us who knew him, because he was an instance (the only one) of a man who had arrived at his principles from a purely intellectual basis.
And let me, finally, correct the impression, if I have by chance, in developing this latter point, given any colour to the idea that his character was hard, logical, unaffectionate, unloving.