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None can enter the kingdom of heaven without becoming a little child. But behind and after this, there is a mystery revealed to but few, namely, that if the soul is to go on into higher spiritual blessedness it must become a _woman_. Yes, however manly thou be among men, it must learn to love being dependent; must lean on God, not solely from distress or alarm, but because it does not like independence or loneliness.... God is not a stern judge, exacting every tittle of some law from us.... He does _not_ act towards us (spiritually) by generalities... but His perfection consists in dealing with each case by itself as if there were no others.
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I have to write as slow as any little schoolboy... and cannot help some blunders. He had been to Birmingham on the 20th June to see Cardinal Newman, and mentions how travelling by rail tried his head. The latter part of the letter relates to a big dinner composed chiefly of Anglo-Indians and their _attachés_. There is one lighted sentence near the end which brings before one's mental eye his often-expressed
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Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin, with regard to the Indian Empire, our past misgovernments, and our present failure to recognize old promises:
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The glorification of our Indian policy only made me melancholy.
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which Martineau was to receive was no doubt his
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Doctor of Divinity degree which he took in 1884 (Edinburgh). Dr. Jowett, it will be remembered, was, throughout his whole life, closely identified with Balliol College. He was Fellow in 1838, tutor of his college from 1840 till 1870, when he was chosen as Master. Ruskin (to whom reference is made in the second letter) gave the larger part of his originally large fortune to the founding of St. George's Guild. This was intended to be a sort of agricultural community of
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for young and old,
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One of his great aims was the promoting of home industries. As regards Newman's reference to politics at the end of letter No. 2 in 1888, Gladstone's Government was but just _breathing_ after the sharp tussle they had been through with the Home Rule party, with Parnell at their head. In 1886 Gladstone had brought in the measure which was to give Ireland a