LETTERS TO THE EDITOR,.
MR. STEPHENS AND THE NATIONAL CHURCH.
[To TEN EDITOR OP THU " SPECTATOR." J
SIB,—I neither would nor could add a word to your argument in reply to Mr. Stephens. But will you let me remind those
of your readers who care for the philosophy of constitutional politics as well as for their practical treatment, that the rela- tion between the facts and the philosophy of history, both generally, and specially in reference to the matter of a National Church, has been thoroughly described by Coleridge in his essay "On the Constitution of the Church and State according to the Idea of Each " ? The book is, I fear, "now seldom pored on;" but it will repay the student not less now than it could when Charles Boller told the House of Commons, and John Mill supported the saying, that Coleridge was, in such matters, the great teacher of their generation.—I am, Sir, &c., E. S.
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