A Life's Decision Lils (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A Life's Decision LilsHaving done this, I found it natural to link the pre sent and the past together, and throwing back a glance at the long period of thirty years which has since run out, I was led to estimate the result which a genera tion has had upon that school of thought to which I once belonged, if, indeed, it be correct to give the name of a school to endlessly varying shades of in dividual minds, which seemed for the moment to be looking in the same direction, but no doubt were each ruled by a distinct and responsible choice, in which the end will show the man.My thanks are due to his Eminence Cardinal Newman, to his Eminence Cardinal Manning, to the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, to the Bishop of Salis bury, and to Lord Coleridge, on behalf of the late Mr. Justice Coleridge, for permission to insert their several letters in this narrative. Others of my correspondents, some of them dearly valued friends, are dead, whose permission I could no longer ask, while the letters exchanged with the late Dr. Samuel Wilberforce seemed scarcely private, but rather documents attest ing how, in 1849, the then Bishop of Oxford, with the advice of the Archbishop of Canterbury (sumner.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.