of British independence. He was devoid of theological prejudice, and
never reviled Catholicism as Newman reviled it before his
conversion. But he held that the reformers, alike in England, in
France, and in Germany, were fighting for truth, honesty, and
private judgment against priestcraft and ecclesiastical tyranny. The
scepticism and cynicism of which he was often accused were on the
surface. They were provoked by what he felt to be hypocrisy and
sham. They were not his true self. He believed firmly unflinchingly,
and always in "the grand, simple landmarks of morality," which
existed before all Churches, and would exist if all Churches
disappeared.

Ou gar tanun ge kachthes, all' aei pote
Ze tauta, koudeis oiden ex hotou phane

["For they are not of today or yesterday, but these things
live for ever, but no one knows from whence they appear."
Sophocles, Antigone, 456.]

Before Abraham was they were, and it is impossible to imagine a
time when they will have ceased to be.

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* Lectures on the Council of Trent, p. 1.
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Froude was an Erastian, holding that the Church should be
subordinate to the State. True religion is incompatible with
persecution. But true religion is rare, and the best modern security