[87] See the expression of orthodox opinion upon the
          “accommodation” subterfuge already cited above, p. 217.

     [88] I quote the first edition (1843).  A second edition
          appeared in 1870.  Tract 85 of the Tracts for the
          Times should be read with this Essay.  If I were
          called upon to compile a Primer of “Infidelity,” I
          think I should save myself trouble by making a
          selection from these works, and from the Essay on
          Development by the same author.

     [89] Yet, when it suits his purpose, as in the Introduction
          to the Essay on Development, Dr. Newman can demand
          strict evidence in religious questions as sharply as
          any “infidel author;” and he can even profess to yield
          to its force (Essay on Miracles, 1870; note, p. 391).

     [90] Compare Tract 85, p. 110; “I am persuaded that were men
          but consistent who oppose the Church doctrines as being
          unscriptural, they would vindicate the Jews for
          rejecting the Gospel.”

     [91] According to Dr. Newman, “This prayer [that of Bishop
          Alexander, who begged God to ‘take Arius away’] is said
          to have been offered about 3 P.M. on the Saturday; that
          same evening Arius was in the great square of
          Constantine, when he was suddenly seized with
          indisposition” (p. clxx).  The “infidel” Gibbon seems to
          have dared to suggest that “an option between poison
          and miracle” is presented by this case; and it must be
          admitted, that, if the Bishop had been within the reach
          of a modern police magistrate, things might have gone
          hardly with him.  Modern “Infidels,” possessed of a
          slight knowledge of chemistry, are not unlikely, with
          no less audacity, to suggest an “option between
          fire-damp and miracle” in seeking for the cause of the
          fiery outburst at Jerusalem.

     [92] A writer in a spiritualist journal takes me roundly
          to task for venturing to doubt the historical and
          literal truth of the Gadarene story.  The following
          passage in his letter is worth quotation:  “Now to the
          materialistic and scientific mind, to the uninitiated
          in spiritual verities, certainly this story of the
          Gadarene or Gergesene swine presents insurmountable
          difficulties; it seems grotesque and nonsensical.  To
          the experienced, trained, and cultivated Spiritualist
          this miracle is, as I am prepared to show, one of the
          most instructive, the most profoundly useful, and the
          most beneficent which Jesus ever wrought in the whole
          course of His pilgrimage of redemption on earth.”  Just
          so.  And the first page of this same journal presents
          the following advertisement, among others of the same
          kidney: