29 APRIL 1876, Page 3

In laying the foundation-stone of the Library, the Marquis of

Salisbury commented on the fact that in this age of negative philosophies the first new College which Oxford has founded for a century and a half, or longer, should be devoted, not to the negative philosophies, but to the Christian faith. The negative philosophers have no creed which they care to dissemi- nate, and so even in the day of their success they found nothing. That is true, and it is tree that K eble College represents a certain impulse of real faith, but it is true also that it represents a rather hesitating kind of faith, which has wavered much between Keble's day and the pre- sent. The Puseyites, as represented by "The Christian Year,' are hardly, we suspect, even in a majority at Keble College now.