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He was a true philanthropist. He championed the cause of the oppressed everywhere.... A room in his house was set apart as a guest-chamber for persons needing a change to the seaside, but whose circumstances barred the way; and not a few were fresh equipped for the work and battle of life, as a result of his thoughtful hospitality.... Francis Newman stood by himself in his greatness, his goodness, his simplicity, and we shall not find his like again.... Above all, our friend was a truth seeker. This was the ruling passion of his life.
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Cannot they understand that my husband is under a cloud--a mist, as it were? Both the brothers, the Cardinal and Francis Newman, through the greater part of their lives had been restlessly searching for truth--for certainty--in their faith. Calvinism had been the black cloud under which they had both been brought up. If the _obiter dictum_ of a celebrated Cardinal in the Roman Church be correct:
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Give _me_ the child till he is seven years old, and he will be a Jesuit all his life, then indeed it shows the tremendous power of habit, for it was only through much tribulation, through passionate inward wrestlings with those terrible tenets, and through many searchings of heart, that either brother made his way out of its toils at length. The Cardinal sought above all things Truth, through authority; no one will forget those soul-stirring words of his in his _Apologia pro Vitâ Suâ_ in which he speaks of the great peace that at last quieted his doubts and fears when he was received into the Roman Church. To many of us Authority _is_ the life-buoy which supports us
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; but Francis Newman could not believe in it.
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Authority is the bane, he would say,