Whether The Record is in any degree ashamed of its
language in calling Mr. Mill a Satanic ' philosopher we are not quite sure, for the incidental reference of the responsibility of the paragraph to a "correspondent," of whom there was no trace in the original printing of the criticism, may be due to its natural modesty in disclaiming a virtue. But at all events it is not ashamed of its thought, which it does its best to re-affirm in other language in a leading article of Wednesday last, introducing (as if by the way, and in reference to well-accredited facts) a description of Mr. Maurice's theology as " Unitarian," which cannot arise from =ignorance,—Mr. Maurice being the one theologian of the day who has grappled boldly with the •Unitarian doctrine—and is no doubt due to that inaccessible type of morality which inspires our contemporary with its scorn for human virtues. The Bishop of St. David's charitably thinks that The Record is only incapable' of understanding Mr. Mill. That no doubt it is, and we should be glad to think that there is nothing worse. But it is simply impossible that the editor of The Record can believe in Mr. Maurice's
Unitarianism' or Pantheism,'—forms of theology indeed almost uniformly mutually exclusive, and of which no one has appreciated the better sides more fairly, or pointed out the deficiencies more subtly than Mr. Maurice,—and when we find him inventing such groundless epithets for a theological opponent merely apparently because he is an opponent, we cannot help doubting whether the mud which he casts at Mr. Mill is thrown with any better justifi- cation than the hope that some of it may stick.
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