17 MARCH 1883, page 13

[to The Editor Of Ran " Specs' Ator."] Sir,—it May

be quite true, as you say, that under the present law against blasphemy, writers like Mr. Matthew Arnold ought not logically to escape the punishment which has been inflicted on......

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R. BROWNING might have taken as a motto for his work as a poet one of Cardinal Newman's striking verses : — "Can Science bear us To the hid springs Of human things P Why may not......