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Fichte's Philosophy; delight in the contemplation of the highest
spiritual truths; sacerdotal religions; personal revelation; man-
kind designed for progress; the first direction of the religious
tendency is towards idolatry; the internal world the perennial
fountain of good; mental philosophy, 76-80; a Letter on the
Dangers of Ordination in Churches with endowed Articles of
Faith, 80-90; Gieseler's Ecclesiastical History, 90; Degerando
du Perfectionnement Moral, Liberty; Free-will and Desire; Con-
science, 90-92; Gieseler's Church History, St. Boniface and
Pope Gregory III; lawful kinds of food, 92-93; Michelet's
History of France, 93; expectation of having one of his nieces
(Beck) from Seville, to reside with him, 93; Captain Curtain and
the purchase-money for his son's company, 93; Lucian, 94; his
health, 94; Lucian's Vera Historia, and Swift's Gulliver's Travels,
95; his violin, 95; Letter from Dr. Channing, popish explosion
at Oxford; Romanism, its foundations in our nature; dread of
innovation reacting against the spirit of reform; ultra-conserva-
tives exposed to fanaticism; the necessity that a nobler form of
Christianity should be preached; Unitarianism; whence is salva-
tion to come; War; the courage of soldiers; the sense of honour;
general unfaithfulness to Christian principles, 95-97; Lucian's
account of Alexander the Pseudomantis, 98-99; Roman Philo-
sophy in the 2nd century; Aulus Gellius; Cicero,-the question
of deviation from right for the sake of a friend, 99-100; the in-
crease of Roman Catholicism in England, 100-101; Mr. Beck
(his cousin) 101-102; Dionysius of Halicarnassus,-Niches, or
Chapels, in Spanish,-Retablos, to the Entrance-Heroes; Chris-
tian ceremonies derived from the ancients; Heathen and Jewish
Slavery, 102-104; Letter to Dr. Channing, his health,-imagi-
nation in Religion; the origin of the Oxford School of Theology;
Unitarianism, its alleged coldness; his confidence in God, and
hopes of great results from the Christianity he held, 104-108;
Mrs. Whately, 108; writes in Spanish, 108; is visited by his
niece, 109; Dr. Hawkins, 109-110; Letter from Professor
Powell, the controversies of Oxford, the importance of the pursuit
of truth, 110-111; Letter to Professor Powell, 112; Abraham, as
the representative of faithfulness to Conscience and Truth, 112—
113; Mrs. Whately, 113; Letter from —, Dr. Hampden and the
Oxford Party, 113-114; Enthusiasm, what it is, 115-118; Letter
from Dr. Channing,-the province of Imagination in Religion;
Historical Christianity; Supernaturalism; the sacredness of Na-
ture; the Church of England; Trinitarian Controversy in En-
gland, 118-120; reply to Dr. Channing, on the province of
Imagination in religion, 121-123; the assurance of hope as con-
veyed by Doctrinal belief, and by the inward spirit of religion, 123
-124.
CHAPTER X.
LETTER TO THE REV. J. H. THOM.
(Reviewing his Religious History from 1826 to 1839.)
The unfinished state of his Memoirs, 125; his Life at Oxford, the
Oriel Common Room, 126-127; the ideal of a College, 128; Dr.
Whately, Mr. Ogilvie, Dr. Cotton, 129; his want of sympathy
with the governing party in the University, 129-130; the con-
tested election of 1829,—the No Popery party, 130-131; the
Puseyite party, John Henry Newman, 131—132; feels himself out
of harmony with Oxford men; Dr. Whately's removal to Dublin,
133; the workings of his mind on religious subjects, the usual
theory of revelation, inspiration, infallibility, 133-135; his vain
attempts to ease the yoke of orthodoxy after the method of the
less strict class of Churchmen, 137; Neander's History of Chris-
tianity, 138; the development of his views, Letters on Heresy and
Orthodoxy, 139-140; the Rev. George Armstrong,-correspond-
ence with him, 141-142; that neither Jesus nor his Apostles
intended to establish a system of abstract doctrines, 143-144;
the Anglo-Catholic school, 145-146; his notion of true Chris-
tianity, 146-156; Suabedissen,-his views of Religion, 157-161.
CHAPTER XI.
1840.
Retrospect of last year, 163; the Poor Man's Preservative against
Popery, the defects of that work, 163-164; a Parable,-Dr.
Hawkins on the duty of Private Judgment, 164-165; the Fools
and Clowns of Shakespeare, 166-170; Letter to Professor Powell,
171; Lines on the Queen's marriage, 172; the gloom of the pre-
valent Christianity, 173; Letter to the Secretary of the Liverpool
Anti-Slavery Society, 174-175; state of his health, 175; Letter
to Miss L―, truth not to be guaged by comfort, 175-176; the
Rev. W. Bishop and Rowland Hill, 176-178; his suffering
state, 178-180; Letter from Dr. Channing, 180-183; Professor
Powell, 183; the perverting influence of dogmatic religion, 184-
185; Salvador on the doctrine of Christ, 186-188; Letter to Dr.
Channing, Music,-Pain as viewed by the Mystics, Spain,-Dr.
Follen, 188-190; Journal, 190-192; Lamartine, 192-193;
Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella, 193-194; Letter from Dr.
Channing, Pain,-Goethe's correspondence with a child,—Music,
-Don Quixote, 194-6; St. John xviii. 37, 38, 196-197; pro-
poses to himself a History of the Inquisition, 197-199; his son's
promotion, 199; Letter to Lord Holland, 200-201; Letter from
Professor Norton, 201-202; removes to Lodgings in the neigh-
bourhood of Liverpool, 202; the Scriptures in the hands of the
Church,―Thomas Aquinas, 204; state of his health, 204-206;
Letter to Professor Norton,-Historical evidence of Christianity,
list of his writings,-postscript to Miss Norton, 207—209; Dr.
Paulus, 209-211; his sufferings, 212; death of Lord Holland,
212; Letters on occasion of, 213-216; Senior (N. W.) 216;
the Rev. Henry Bishop, his offer of assistance, 217; Letter from
Professor Powell,—the fable of the Church,-Lord Lyndhurst, 218
-219; Letter to Professor Powell, 219-220; Letter from Dr.
Dickinson, Bishop of Meath, 220; Letter from Professor Norton,
221-222; preparations for death, 223; Letter to the Secretary
of the African Civilization Society, 223-224; Letter to Professor
Norton, his religious convictions, the workings of opinion
upon different characters, 224-226; to Miss L—, his health,
dogmatic religion, 226-228; an instance of his considerate kind-
ness, 229; close of the year 1840, 230.
CHAPTER XII.
THE RATIONALIST A KEMPIS, OR THE RELIGIOUS SCEPTIC IN
GOD'S PRESENCE.
Thoughts written in 1840.
I. Meditation and Prayer, 231-234; II. The Evil One, 235-237 ;
III. Free Will, 238; IV. Corruption of Human Nature, 239—
242; V. Revealed Writings, 243-249; VI. Disguised Selfish-
ness supported by perverted Religion, 250-258; VII. Protes-
tant Saving Faith, 259-261; VIII. Redemption, 262-267;
IX. Spirituality, 268-271; X. Humility, 272-275; XI. Prayer,
276-278; XII. Christian Morals, 279-283; XIII. Fear, 284
286; XIV. Death, 287-292.
CHAPTER XIII.
1841.
A prayer, 293; his health, a voyage to Jamaica proposed, and aban-
doned, 294; Mitchell's Aristophanes, Mr. J. H. Frere's; Mitford's
Greece, 294-295; his sufferings, and strivings for patience, 295;
his Memoirs, 295; Abdy's Journal on the United States, 296;
self command in illness, 296; the influence of Refinement on the
decline of active kindness and hospitality in England, 297; Letter
to Dr. Channing,-Slavery, Music, 298-299; expectation of
death; close of the Diary, 299.
(Conclusion.)
[His removal to Greenbank, near Liverpool, to the house of Mr. Rath-
bone, 300; his state of mind in his last illness, 300-303; Letter
to a Lady who urged the danger of his religious state, 303-304;
Letter from Dr. Channing,-Slavery,-Ranke's History of the
Popes, 304-307; Notes of an answer to Dr. Channing, 307-
308; his sufferings; some of his latest expressions; his death, 308
-310; Letter to the Editor from Dr. Channing on the death of
Mr. White, 311-312.]
APPENDIX.
I. Genealogy of the family of Joseph Blanco White (see
vol. i. p. 3)
p. 314-316
II. Letters to Lord Holland, relating to the Semanario
Patriotico, and the Espanol, between the years
1809-1813
317-339
III. Some Passages of his Diary in the years 1812-1819 340-365
IV. Sunday Letters to the Rev. J. H. Thom :-
1. The Memoirs of John Woolman,-the early
4. Social Worship, and the relation of the Bible
5. The Gospels the best external support of the
Religion of the Christ
6. The two aspects of Religion, when considered
as TRUTH, and as an INSTRUMENT of Go-
8. His Mental Identity from his earliest years;
Faith as the product of Reason or of Imagina-
tion
p. 387-392
393-398
9. English Presbyterianism; religious Associations 403-414
10. The Child's Book on the Soul
414-422
12. Idolatry
V. Plain Dialogues on Religious Subjects. (Commenced
VI. Merub, or the Mark on the Forehead, a Tale
A List of the Writings of Blanco White.
11. The Zeal of Fanatics
13. Superstition, its Etymology
with the view of recalling some parts of the Poor
Man's Preservative against Popery.)
433-435
436-456
457
467
ERRATUM.
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