Lastly, it has happened that my life has been for the last forty years largely, intimately, actively concerned with the details of the conflict. I make therefore no apology for publishing "Notes of my Life." In respect of the "Education" question, I write in the position of a man irretrievably defeated. The adversary and the supporter have combined against me, and, after a fight of twenty-five years, it was waste of time to fight any more. I retired thereupon into passive resistance. My apprehensions and my arguments remain, indeed, just where they were thirty-three years ago; save only that all the apprehensions have become facts, and all the arguments have been proved to be sound by succession and culmination. of results. I have letters lying before me in great numbers, from great names, congratulating me through many years upon what I had been enabled to do in this matter for the Church of England. I was at no time able to accept the congratulation as wellfounded; I feared what was coming; and in 1853-5 was compelled to part with it altogether; in 1853, as respected the Church at large, and in 1855, as respected the Diocese of Bath and Wells. I felt it indeed to be my duty to the Church to persevere actively after 1855, and down to 1870; but it was as hoping against hope. If I had retained any hope of the public issue as long ago as 1851, I should not have then made. the Vicarage of East Brent the private training and middle schools which I made it to be. These schools were largely promoted by kind friends, and worked excellently well till 1854. In 1854, in consequence of the pressure upon my time and energies caused by the prosecution against me in the matter of "THE REAL PRESENCE," I was compelled to close them. CONTENTS. DECAY OF GREEK AND LATIN.-Its causes and remedies.-Connected closely with decay of “Education” in our time.—Antiochus Epi- phanes, second century before CHRIST.—Julian the Apostate, fourth CUDDESDON, Curacy of.—Outline of Catholic Revival.-General Posi- tion then and subsequently." Tory," "Whig," "Liberal," "Con- servative." — Distinction between "Tory" and Conservative."- EAST BRENT.-Bishop Bagot.-Examining Chaplaincy.-Ritual, germ of.-Bristol, and other Church Unions.-Development of Policy of Indifferentism.-Minutes of 1846.-Withdrawal of application for assistance under Minutes.-Letter to Mr. Gladstone, 1847.— Refusal to admit further Government Inspection. - Position of Mr. Gladstone in relation to the "Schools question.” — Manage- ment Clauses.-National Society.-Letter to Bishop Bagot, 1849.— Summary of "Schools question," from beginning of century to 1840. From 1840 to 1852.-John Keble.-Communication from the Derby Government, 1852.—Action thereupon.-Letter to Chris- topher Wordsworth.-Final defeat upon the Management Clauses. First indications of policy of Elementary "Education" Act of 1870, in Manchester and Salford "Education" scheme.-Papal EAST BRENT.-Prosecution for teaching THE REAL PRESENCE.— Mr. Henley in the House of Commons, 1855, 6.-His majority against Lord John Russell and Sir J. Pakington.-Divorce Act.— EAST BRENT.-Convocation.-General review.-Education question Reviews."-Dr. Colenso.-Bishop of St. David's.-Bishop of Cape- town.- Professor Jowett.—Dr. Pusey. - Oxford Declaration.— Dr. Temple, Bishop of Exeter.-Protest, and action thereupon.-Court of Final Appeal. - Conscience Clause. - Letter to Mr. Hardy. — Bishop Wilberforce.—Earl of Carnarvon.-Defeat of Mr. Gladstone EAST BRENT.-Defeat in Lower House in re "Conscience Clause."— “Ritual.”—Gradual change of mind thereupon.-Norwich Con- gress.-Letter of Archbishop of Canterbury, 1865.-Discussion in, P. 416 |