Apologia Pro Vita Sua: being a reply to a pamphlet entitled "What, then, does Dr. Newman mean."

Apologia Pro Vita Sua: being a reply to a pamphlet entitled "What, then, does Dr. Newman mean."

Newman, John Henry

London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864

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1864

George Eliot to Sara Sophia Hennell, London, 13 July [1864]. "I have been reading Newman's Apologia pro Vita Suâ, with such absorbing interest that I found it impossible to forsake the book until I had finished it. I don't know whether the affair between him and Kingsley has interested you, or whether you have shared at all my view of it. I have been made so indignant by Kingsley's mixture of arrogance, coarse impertinence and unscrupulousness with real intellectual incompetence, that my first interest in Newman's answer arose from a wish to see what I consider thoroughly vicious writing thoroughly castigated. But the Apology now mainly affects me as the revelation of a life -- how different in form from one's own, yet with how close a fellowship in its needs and burthens -- I mean spiritual needs and burthens. At the end there is a beautiful letter written by our old acquaintance Dr. Ullathorne, Bishop of Birmingham, intended as a public testimony to Newman's active life since he entered the Catholic Church." GEL 4: 158

Newman, John Henry, Apologia Pro Vita Sua: being a reply to a pamphlet entitled "What, then, does Dr. Newman mean.", George Eliot's Reading, George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://www.georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/56994

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