it by not using them.  It is too difficult to speak, as ought to be spoken, of this ungenerous and gratuitous afterthought—­too difficult to keep clear of what, at least, will be thought exaggeration; too difficult to do justice to what they feel to be undoubtedly true; and I will not attempt to say more than enough to mark an opinion which ought to be plainly avowed, as to the nature of this procedure.[123]

FOOTNOTES: 

[116] A pencilled note indicates that this illustration was suggested by experiments in naval engineering carried on at one time by Mr. W. Froude.  Cf.  T. Mozley, Reminiscences, vol. ii. p. 17.

[117] Hymn in Paris Breviary, Commune Sanctarum Mulierum.

[118] Reminiscences, ii. 243, 244.  Cf. British Critic, July 1841.

[119] Reminiscences, ii. 223.

[120] Ideal, p. 566.

[121] Ibid. pp. 565-567.

[122] It is part of the history of the time, that during those anxious days, Mr. Ward was engaged to be married.  The engagement came to the knowledge of his friends, to their great astonishment and amusement, very soon after the events in the Theatre.

[123] From a Short Appeal to Members of Convocation on the proposed Censure on No. 90.  By Frederic Rogers, Fellow of Oriel. (Dated Saturday, 8th of February 1845.)

CHAPTER XIX

THE CATASTROPHE

The events of February were a great shock.  The routine of Oxford had been broken as it had never been broken by the fiercest strifes before.  Condemnations had been before passed on opinions, and even on persons.  But to see an eminent man, of blameless life, a fellow of one of the first among the Colleges, solemnly deprived of his degree and all that the degree carried with it, and that on a charge in which bad faith and treachery were combined with alleged heresy, was a novel experience, where the kindnesses of daily companionship and social intercourse still asserted themselves as paramount to official ideas of position.  And when, besides this, people realised what more had been attempted, and by how narrow a chance a still heavier blow had been averted from one towards whom so many hearts warmed, how narrowly a yoke had been escaped which would have seemed to subject all religious thought in the University to the caprice or the blind zeal of a partisan official, the sense of relief was mixed with the still present memory of a desperate peril And then came the question as to what was to come next.  That the old policy of the Board would be revived and pursued when the end of the Proctors’ year delivered it from their inconvenient presence, was soon understood to be out of the question.  The very violence of the measures attempted had its reaction, which stopped anything further.  The opponents