It seems to have been conceived in one quarter that
in commenting on Miss Wedgwood's paper on "The Cambridge Apostles" last Saturday, in our review of the Magazines, we had intended to say that the modern Agnostics are in some sense the successors of the movement initiated by the late F. D. Maurice. Nothing could have been further from our meaning. We in- tended to contrast the very positive teaching of that great school with the arid negativeness of the Agnostics, and we believe and hope that the positive teaching of F. D. Maurice is still the heart and soul of a great deal of our beat Christian life. But doubtless there have been a few thinkers who were caught by Mr. Maurice's teaching rather because it coincided with some of their doubts than because it relieved them, as it might have done, of the worst of those doubts ; and those few may have seemed to pass through a stage of sympathy with Mr. Maurice in their progress to Agnosticism. Their sympathy can never have been very deep.
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