The Dean of Westminster (Dr. Stanley) and the Rev. Charles
Kingsley have both come forward with great courage and manli- ness to support Mr. J. S. Mill, and to testify to the theological soundness of the passage against Mr. Mansel's theory which the Record called " satanic" and the Morning Advertiser "atheistic." "So far from justifying in the least degree the charge of Atheism," says the Dean, "it contains a forcible exposition of the foundation of all true religion." "I wish to see Mr. J. S. Mill in Parliament," says Mr. Kingsley, "because he is one of the few living men whose writings are full of the love of fact, of the intense and diligent search after truth for its own sake, at what- ever risk, and whatever it may prove to be like." "Of late," he continues, "Mr. Mill has special claims on me as a clergyman of the Church of England." From the chapter now incriminated in Mr. Mill's new book, "I did myself the honour," says Mr. Kingsley, "in a late sermon at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, of quoting two invaluable pages. If I omitted the now famous passage, I did so because it was so solemnly and startlingly true, that I should have had to speak of nothing else for the rest of the sermon, had I once awakened my readers to this new and noble idea." With such testimonies as these and the Bishop of St. David's, the Record may rage and the Advertiser imagine vain things, without injuring Mr. Mill in the opinion of any true Liberal.
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