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Excerpt from What Is Oxford Doing?: Or Hints to College Pastors and Tutors
The notions above alluded to may be, yet are they maintained with a constancy and fervour that would do infinite credit to, and ought to be deemed worthy of, those views which their opponents profess to urge and act upon. It would perhaps be well to ex amine brie?y the quality of the foundation of the high claims advanced by our Oxford Clergy, in common with their brethren we fear that were the spirit and love that in?amed the Apostles to be the test of these claims, they would hardly be maintained. Far be it from the object of this pamphlet to make light of the high authority our Church gives her Ministers; nay rather setting this in its proper noble position, we would exclaim from it against the complacent supine ness of some, and the unintelligent exclusiveness of others, and the position from which the exclamation is made demands attention and respect. Surely a close and stem examination into the motives and modes of our conduct is an individual duty, which has latterly assumed ten-fold importance, and by entering upon it with a temperate spirit we may succeed in getting at the truth, and consequently be best en abled in part to answer the question proposed at the commencement - What is Oxford doing? This method of conducting the enquiry will therefore prove more salutary than were we to introduce, and comment upon the unhappy questions which now harass and divide us, and which indeed would be irre levant to a paper which proposes to hint at evils of long standing, viewed in their present baneful opera.
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