“This morning I have had two hours at breakfast with Newman. O! it
is sad,—he and his friends are truly intellectual people, but they
have lost their ground, going exactly _my way_, but stopping short
in the middle. It is too late. There has been an amicable change
of ideas and a Christian understanding. Yesterday he preached a
beautiful sermon. A new period of life begins for me; may God’s
blessing be upon it!”