Characteristics
from the writings of John Henry Newman
Edited by William Samuel Lilly

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Contents

NOTE—The reference at the end of each selection is linked to the file wherein
that selection can be found in Newman Reader, but the page numbers given by
Lilly rarely correspond to the correct page numbers in the Newman Reader file
(which file generally is based on a later edition of the work).

Preface Page
Part I.—Personal
1. Early Religious Impressions 3.
2. First Years of Residence at Oriel 9.
3. Mr. Keble's Teaching 12.
4. Hurrell Froude 15.
5. The Teaching of Antiquity 18.
6. Travels in the South of Europe 23.
7. The Tracts for the Times 26.
8. Dr. Pusey [file 2] 33.
9. The Via Media 36.
10. Growth of the "Anglo-Catholic" Party 38.
11. Tract Ninety 39.
12. "Securus Judicat Orbis Terrarum" 43.
13. Three further Blows 50.
14. From 1841 to 1845 52.
15. Reception 59.
16. Since 1845 61.
17. The Anglican Church seen from Without 62.
18. Letter to Father Coleridge on Anglican Orders 66.

Part II.—Philosophical
1. Intellectual Education pre-eminently a Discipline in Accuracy of Mind 71.
2. The Popular Conception of an "Intellectual Man" 74.
3. The Origin of Political and Religious Watchwords 76.
4. Real Apprehension of the Affections and Passions possible only by Experience 77.
5. Realization {xiv} 78.
6. Our Notions of Things merely Aspects of them 80.
7. How Men really Reason in Concrete Matters 82.
8. Intellectual Obstructions 92.
9. The Laws of the Mind the Expression of the Divine Will 93.
10. First Principles 94.
11. The Ethics of Culture 96.
12. Culture and Vice 103.
13. The World's Philosophy of Religion 105.
14. The Doctrine of Retributive Punishment [file 2] 109.
15. What is Theology? 111.
16. Physical Philosophy and Theology 117.
17. The Baconian Philosophy 119.
18. Rationalism 122.
19. The God of Monotheism and the God of Rationalism 126.
20. The "Duty of Scepticism" 130.
21. Apprehension of God through the Conscience 131.
22. Hume's Argument against the Jewish and Christian Miracles 139.
23. Gibbon's "Five Causes" 141.
24. The Principle of Faith 146.

Part III.—Historical
1. English Jealousy of Church and Army 153.
2. Irish Discontent 157.
3. The Northman Character 162.
4. Northman and Norman 165.
5. Athens 167.
6. Oxford 173.
7. St. Benedict and Early Monachism 175.
8. The Death of St. Bede 179.
9. Abelard 182.
10. Pope Liberius [file 2] 187.
11. Death of St. Gregory VII. 188.
12. Rome and Constantinople in 1566 189.
13. The Election of St. Pius V. 190.
14. The Battle of Lepanto 194.
15. The Religious History of England 197.
16. Catholicism in England from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century 209.
17. The Re-establishment of the Hierarchy {xv} 213.

Part IV.—Religious
Section I.—Protestantism
1. Protestantism and Historical Christianity 223.
2. Bible Religion 225.
3. Puritanism 227.
4. Muscular Christianity 228.
5. English Religious Ideas 229.
6. A Protestant View of Conversions 236.
7. Protestant Texts 239.
8. Protestant Image Worship 242.
9. The Right of Private Judgment or the Private Right of Judgment 243.
10. The Rationale of Protestant Persecution 245.
11. Protestantism drifting into Scepticism 247.
Section II.—Anglicanism
1. The Anglican View of the Visible Church 250.
2. The Branch Theory 252.
3. The Church of England 254.
4. Anglican Orders 258.
5. Anglican Ordinances 271.
6. The High Church Party 284.
7. The Christian Year [file 2] 286.
8. The Tractarian Movement 290.
9. Anglo-Catholic or Patristico-Protestant? 294.
10. The Non-jurors and the Lesson they Teach 299.
11. The Anglican Argument from Differences among Catholics 304.
12. Anglican Objections from Antiquity 306.
13. Invincible Ignorance and Anglicanism 313.
14. Fundamental Difference between Catholicism and Anglicanism 319.
Section III.—Catholicism
1. Catholicism and the Religions of the World 320.
2. Faith in the Catholic Church 324.
3. Faith in any other Religious Body than the Catholic Church impossible 332.
4. Dispositions for joining the Catholic Church {xvi} 334.
5. No Logical Alternative between Catholicism and Scepticism 338.
6. A Convert 340.
7. Faith and Devotion 341.
8. Private Judgment among Catholics 345.
9. The Aim of the Catholic Church 347.
10. The Religion of Catholics 356.
11. The Privileges of Catholics 359.
12. Integrity of Catholic Doctrine 361.
13. Transubstantiation [file 2] 363.
14. Mass 364.
15. Benediction 366.
16. Confession 367.
17. Counsels of Perfection 368.
18. Relics and Miracles 370.
19. The Earliest Recorded Apparition of the Blessed Virgin 379.
20. The Antecedent Argument for an Infallible Arbiter of Faith and Morals 381.
21. The Practical Wisdom of the Holy See 385.
22. The Obligations of Catholics to the Holy See 387.
23. English Catholics and Pius IX. 391.
24. Scandals in the Catholic Church 393.
25. "Popular" Catholics 395.
26. A Bad Catholic 398.
27. The Idea of a Saint [file 3] 402.
28. Lingering Imperfections of Saints; Personal and Temporary Errors of Popes 403.
29. St. John Baptist 404.
30. St. John Evangelist 406.
31. St. Mary Magdalen 407.
32. St. Augustine 410.
33. St. Philip Neri 413.
34. Mater Dei 416.
35. Mater Purissima 419.
36. Refugium Peccatorum 423.
37. Sine Labe Originali Concepta 424.
38. Maria Assumpta 432.
39. Growth of the Cultus of Mary 435.
Index 439.

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Dedication

I dedicate this volume to

S. L. L.

who has done so much to lighten my labour and to
enhance my pleasure in compiling it.

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Title Page

CHARACTERISTICS

FROM THE WRITINGS OF

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

BEING SELECTIONS

PERSONAL, HISTORICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, AND
RELIGIOUS, FROM HIS VARIOUS WORKS

ARRANGED BY

WILLIAM SAMUEL LILLY
OF THE INNER TEMPLE, BARRISTER-AT-LAW

WITH THE AUTHOR'S APPROVAL

Ille velut fidis arcana sodalibus olim
Credebat libris, neque si male cessarat unquam
Decurrens alio, neque si bene; quo fit ut omnis
Votiva pateat veluti descripta tabella
Vita senis.

NEW YORK:
SCRIBNER, WELFORD, & ARMSTRONG

1875

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