BY THE SAME AUTHOR THE LIFE OF JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN. Based on his Private Journals and Correspondence. With 15 Portraits and Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo, 36s. net. CHEAP EDITION. With New Prefatory Matter and 2 Portraits. 2 vols. 8vo, 12s. 6d. net. THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CARDINAL WISEMAN. With 3 Portraits. 2 vols. Crown 8vo, Ios. net. AUBREY DE VERE: a Memoir based on his Unpublished Diaries and Correspondence. WILLIAM GEORGE WARD AND THE TEN PERSONAL STUDIES. With 10 Portraits. 8vo, 10s. 6d. net. CONTENTS: Arthur James Balfour-Three Notable Editors: Delane, Hutton, Knowles-Some Characteristics of Henry Sidgwick-Robert, Earl of Lytton-Father Ignatius Ryder Sir M. E. Grant Duff's Diaries-Leo XIII.-The Genius of Cardinal Wiseman - John Henry Newman-Newman and Manning-Appendix. LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. LONDON, NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA MEN AND MATTERS BY WILFRID WARD LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA 1914 All rights reserved PREFACE WHILE most of the essays in this volume tell their own story, a few words must be said in respect to three of them, entitled: The Conservative Genius of the Church; St. Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Thought; and Cardinal Newman on Constructive Religious Thought. These three essays deal with different aspects of one subject. It is becoming more and more generally admitted that Christian belief cannot be adequately justified or preserved for an inquiring generation without taking account of the legacy left us by the special wisdom and insight of the saints and the prophets of old, which reaches its climax in the Revelation of Christ Himself. And it is widely recognized that the corporate society which has ever preserved that legacy in its traditions is the Holy Catholic Church of the Creed. Again, in the difficult task of Apologetic and of interpreting Christianity to successive civilizations, it is now generally recognized that the thought of the expert few is the natural guide to the less gifted many. And here again the theological tradition of a corporate society is invaluable. The claim for Christianity is at its strongest as exhibited, not in the reasoning of a single average mind, but in the life and thought of the Church as a whole and from the beginning. The individual member of the Church participates in thought and life larger and deeper than his own. The crude theory of "private judgment" finds few advocates. a 2 296:18 |