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Macmillan's Magazine (Feb., 1866) observes:
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We could scarcely transcribe all that is here set forth without offending the religious taste of our readers, and appearing to gloat over the degradation of a church which, amidst all its aberrations and after all ita crimes, is a part of Christendom. We may reasonably hope, also, that there is something to be said upon the other side: for, without casting any suspicion upon Dr. Pusey's honesty, we must remember that he is personally under a strong temptation to scare the wavering members of his party from defection to the Church of Rome (p. 277). This is the opinion of an intensely anti-Catholic writer; and it would be easy to quote scores of similar criticisms. A letter from Oxford, in the
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London Review of February 3, says:
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It seems a gentle irony, certainly, to call a book an 'Eirenicon' which most mercilessly exposes the errors, perversions, and tendencies of those whom it proposes to conciliate. A great portion of the book might have been written by the most distinguished Papophobe--we will not say Dr. Cumming, for the style does not remind us of his publications. The writer in
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Macmillan adds an observation on another point which is well worthy of Dr. Pusey's consideration:
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Dr. Pusey's argument, both against Mariolatry and Papal infallibility, _appeals to principles essentially rationalistic_, which are capable, as we conceive, of being turned with fatal effect against himself
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Weekly Register,
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I never meant to hurt your feelings. He would naturally ask in what sort of atmosphere such a person had lived, to be able to think that such things _could_ be said without being
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He disclaims {223} all desire to
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But he is not speaking of Spaniards or Italians only in many of the most offensive passages of his work. He says, for instance, that it
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(p. 182). Can anything be more shocking than the contrast insinuated here? Or, again, when he says in another place,
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One sees not where there shall be any pause or bound, short of that bold conception, 'that every prayer, both of individuals and of the church, should be addressed to St. Mary?' Dr. Pusey must be perfectly aware of the effect of words like these from him upon the mass of his readers. It is certainly no sufficient _withdrawal_ of them to write a letter to a Catholic newspaper, of limited circulation, saying that he
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Whatever he may think about the writers themselves, he certainly asserts in the face of the world that they teach others to do this. He asserts that there is a
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in the Catholic Church, of which this is the effect. If he
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he still will not take Catholic explanations of their words, which show that they did _not_ hold it; and his own words imply, or at all events admit of, a reservation, that such is the tendency of the system, from which certain individuals escape in consequence of their holiness. Now, it is this assertion about the system of the church which offends Catholics. They care little about their own