Excerpt from A Letter to the Rev. E. B. Pusey, D. D: On His Recent Eirenicon Light, with a feeling that in them I had more than all that I had lost, and, as though I were directly addressing the glorious saints, who bequeathed them to the Church, I said to the inanimate pages, You are now mine, and I am now yours, beyond any mistake. Such, I conceive, would be the joy of the persons I speak of, if they could wake up one morning, and find themselves possessed by right of Catholic traditions and hopes, without violence to their own sense of duty - and, certainly, I am the last man to say that such violence is in any case lawful, that the claims of conscience are not para mount, or that any one may overleap what he deliberately holds to be God's command, in order to make his path easier for him or his heart lighter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.