16 AUGUST 1890, Page 1
We have lost in some respects our greatest Englishman in
Cardinal Newman,—clearly the greatest master of English style, probably him whose life has been more completely the outcome of consistent, deep, and coherent purpose, than that of any other man of genius whom this century of our history has seen. Nowhere has there been a life so completely all of a piece, so patiently carved out of one pure block of purpose, as Cardinal Newman's. As the writer in the Guardian says, whether as Evangelical in his boyhood, or as High Churchman in his youth, or as Roman Catholic in his maturity and old age, his one idea has been to get back to the life of the New Testament, and to realise it in a sense in which neither Evangelicals, nor High Churchmen, nor Roman Catholics have contrived to realise it as yet.
