Index
N
Name, the Holy, 'not left at
large in the world, but lodged in a secure dwelling-place,' once in
Shiloh and Jerusalem, now in the Church, P.S.,
vi., 200-2; P.S.,
vii., 236, 237;
—— contrasted with the name of Alexander, Napoleon's reflections, O.S.,
43-5; G.A.,
490, 491;
—— 'the whole Catholic system bound up in it,' S.N.,
54-6.
Nation and State, Nation (or
People) and State, different aspects of same thing, P.S.,
iii., 221; D.A.,
311;
—— the State, or Standing, the settlement of the People by mutual
arrangements, D.A.,
312, 317;
—— the Government, the living guardian of the laws, D.A.,
312, 317;
—— the Constitution, 'the expedient by which the State is kept in
statu and its ruler is ruled,' D.A.,
314;
—— the Constitution not a mere code of laws, but a body of
national traditions and sentiments, D.A.,
314-6;
—— 'the seat of power is the Government, the seat of liberty is
the Constitution,' D.A.,
318;
—— every State has some Constitution, D.A.,
318-20;
—— four constitutional arrangements, co-ordination (Church and
State), subordination (feudal system), delegation (Roman
dictatorship), participation (the People having a concurrent part in
everything that is done), D.A.,
320-3;
—— participation the English method, D.A.,
341, 342;
—— State implies power and liberty, two antagonistic principles,
one making for centralization, the other for self-government, D.A.,
325;
—— to be a State at all, the People must give up something: they
cannot give up everything, ib., 325;
—— national character seems to wed men to earth, S.D.,
83, 84;
—— barbarous States live in a common imagination, and are
destroyed from without: civilized, in some common object of sense, and
are destroyed from within, H.S.,
i., 162, 170-4, 207, 208;
—— despotisms require great monarchs, constitutions jog on without
them, H.S.,
iii., 70;
—— every great people has a character of its own, Idea,
308, 309;
—— nationality in the Catholic Church, Diff.,
i., 303-5; Diff.,
ii., 185, 186;
—— nations made up of separate immortal souls, P.S.,
iv., 81-3;
—— sin of nations, the sin of individuals, ib., iv., 96,
97;
—— 'the State ought to have a conscience,' but cannot have
half-a-dozen, Diff.,
ii., 257.
Nature, or the Universe,
declares the glory and beauty of God's eternal excellence, P.S.,
iv., 209-13; Mix.,
295-7, 314;
—— image of better things to come, P.S.,
iv., 223, 224;
—— 'does not every star in the sky speak of God?' P.S.,
vi., 308;
—— beauty and kindliness of Nature as the kindliness and beauty of
{100} Woman, V.V.,
33-7;
—— right use of her gifts, S.D.,
124; P.S.,
vi., 308, 309.
Nature as distinguished from
Grace, the natural in itself good, sinful by an evil principle in
us which perverts it, P.S.,
vii., 43; S.D.,
105;
—— 'no natural feeling or act is in itself sinful,' Idea,
510;
—— field of natural knowledge, 'true, because knowledge, and
innocent, because true,' Idea,
510;
—— 'what is in itself innocent may not be innocent to this person,
or in that mode,' Idea,
510; Mix.,
149;
—— unnatural or supernatural? L.G.,
195-8;
—— nature may counterfeit grace, Mix.,
151-60;
—— not hastily to be assumed that this or that man's virtue comes
merely from nature, Mix.,
188, 189;
—— nature in the Christian intensified for good, M.D.,
287, 288, 311;
—— 'pride is dependence on nature without grace, thinking
the supernatural impossible,' S.N.,
31, 32;
—— 'nature ages, we must go to something higher, grace the only
principle of immortality,' S.N.,
37, 38;
—— 'all Nature tends to sin (not in itself),' S.N.,
78, 79;
—— the savageness of that human nature in which we all share, and
which even Christ himself bore, S.N.,
147-54;
—— common delusion that what we do by nature is sufficient for
salvation, S.N.,
191, 192, 322, 324.
Natural Religion, the
religious belief of pious men in the heathen world, not traced out by
unaided reason, U.S.,
17, 18; G.A.,
404;
—— built up by Conscience, U.S.,
18, 19; G.A.,
105-18, 389-91;
—— a knowledge of God attainable rather than attained, U.S.,
21;
—— defects of, ib., 22-4: completed and supplemented by
Christianity, ib., 24; G.A.,
388, 487;
—— anticipates and desires the giving of a revelation, G.A.,
404, 405, 423;
—— based upon sin, recognizes the disease, but cannot find the
remedy, ib., 487.
Natural Theology, gets rid of
conscience and the dark side of religion, P.S.,
i., 317-9;
—— of small use, O.S.,
74;
—— 'whereas the word "Natural" properly comprehends man
and society,' Natural Theology is distinct from Physical Theology,
which remarks upon 'the physical world viewed religiously,' Idea,
61, 449, note; [which distinction is not observed in the two
previous citations].
Neologism (Eclecticism), its
founder Ammonius, his career, Ari.,
101, 102;
—— keeping the form, while it destroys the spirit of Christianity,
ib., 103;
—— denies the mission and inspiration of the prophets, ib.,
103, 104;
—— rationalizes miracles, ib., 104, 105;
—— has the chief features of modern liberalism, ib., 106;
—— points of difference from Arianism, ib., 109-11;
—— points of contact, ib., 111-5.
Nestorianism, its growth, Dev.,
284-97;
—— 'flourishing, imposing communions,' may be heretical, Diff.,
i., 345-7.
Newman, John Henry, early
boyhood, Apo.,
1-3;
—— erasures in his Gradus, Apo.,
120, 121;
—— 'was any boyhood so impious as some years of mine? did I not
dare Thee to do Thy worst? ah, how I struggled to get free from Thee?'
M.D.,
552; V.V.,
301;
—— conversion at the age of fifteen, Apo.,
2, 4;
—— 'from the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental
principle of my religion: religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a
dream and a {101} mockery,' Apo.,
4, 49;
—— early influences, Thomas Scott, Law's Serious Call,
Joseph Milner's Church History, Newton On the Prophecies,
Butler's Analogy, Hawkins, Whately, Apo.,
5-15;
—— learnt to realize the Holy Trinity, heaven and hell, the city
of God and the powers of darkness, eternal punishment, baptismal
regeneration, tradition, the Apostolical succession, the Church, Apo.,
5-12;
—— took Orders in 1824, 'never can forget the day when I bound
myself to the ministry of God in that old church of St. Frideswide,' Apo.,
8; Diff.,
i., 81, 82; Ess.,
ii., 84;
—— Fellow of Oriel in 1822, 'brought under the Shadow of our
Lady,' S.N.,
102;
—— acquaintance with Keble, Apo.,
17, 18;
—— Vicar of St. Mary's in 1828, 'I came out of my shell, remained
out till 1841,' Apo.,
16;
—— drifting in the direction of the Liberalism of the day in 1827,
Apo., 14,
382;
—— his ideas of Angels, Apo.,
2, 28, 29;
—— Newman and Arnold, Apo.,
33, 34; Diff.,
i., 40;
—— voyage to Mediterranean in 1832-3, illness in Sicily, ' I have
a work to do in England,' Apo.,
32-5;
—— period of exuberant and joyous energy, Apo.,
43;
—— 'out of my own head I had begun the Tracts,' Apo.,
40, 41;
—— writes for the Record, ib., 42, 43;
—— his loyalty to his bishop, Apo.,
50, 51;
—— tenacity of Articles of Creed once learnt, Apo.,
49-52; D.A.,
200; Dev.,
200, 201; Call., 291;
—— position in 1833,—α. dogmatic religion, as opposed to
liberalism; β. Church, Sacraments, Episcopacy; γ. the Roman
Antichrist, Apo.,
48-55;
—— his high Toryism, H.S.,
i., 340; H.S.,
iii., 415;
—— unconscious forecast of his own future, P.S.,
iv., 304-6: P.S.,
vii., 116, 117; P.S.,
viii., 195; U.S.,
96, 97, 301, 302;
—— principles that he opposed, Apo.,
294-6;
—— his then view of the Church of Rome, Apo.,
52-5;
—— his confidence in the Fathers as supports to the Church of
England, Library of the Fathers, Apo.,
57;
—— development of his thought, Idea,
4;
—— 'have never taken pleasure in seeming able to move a party,'
had not the dignity necessary for a leader, easy-going, V.M.,
ii., 424; H.S.,
iii., 238; Apo.,
58-60, 128;
—— should have liked to have been a gardener in some great family,
H.S.,
iii., 63;
—— Keble puts the Breviary in his way, Apo.,
74, 75;
—— his Sermons more practical than doctrinal, V.M.,
ii., 418; Apo.,
313;
—— services at St. Mary's, story of the mixed chalice, V.M.,
ii., 419;
—— his sentence (in 1836) on any Church that should allow the
denial of baptismal regeneration, Ess.,
i., 127, note;
—— Prophetical Office of the Church of England, exponent of
the Via Media (A.D.
1834-7), V.M.,
i., 1-355; pref., i.-xxxv.; Apo.,
64-71;
—— controversy between the book theology of Anglicanism (Via
Media) and the popular religion of Rome (Roman corruption), Apo.,
105, 106;
—— Anglicanism stood on Antiquity, Rome on Catholicity, Apo.,
106-8; Ess.,
ii., 367; D.A.,
5, 8;
—— his view of Church unity, a cluster of independent dioceses, as
so many crystals, Apo.,
107;
—— Home Thoughts Abroad, a strong statement of the argument
for Rome; Apo.,
108-11; D.A.,
pref., v., 1-43;
—— 'in the spring of 1839 my position in the Anglican Church was
at its height,' Apo.,
93; shown in an Article in the British Critic on The State
of {102} Religious Parties, Ess.,
i., 263-308; Apo.,
95-104: 'contains my last words as an Anglican to Anglicans,' Apo.,
94;
—— the coming of the ghost, 'Rome will be found right after all,'
October, 1839, Apo.,
118;
—— 'I saw my face, and I was a Monophysite,' Apo.,
114, 115;
—— 'what was the use of turning devil's advocate against the
much-enduring Athanasius and the majestic Leo? be my soul with the
Saints,' Diff.,
i., 394-6; Apo.
, 115, 116;
—— securus judicat orbis terrarum, Apo.,
116, 117; Ess.,
ii., 35;
—— previous notion that his mind had not found ultimate rest, Lead,
kindly light, Apo.,
119; V.V.,
156, 187;
—— like Samuel, lay down to sleep again, Apo.,
120; Ess.,
ii., 40-3, notes;
—— of the three principles, Dogma, Sacraments, anti-Romanism, two
were better in Rome, the third remained; 'I was very nearly a pure
Protestant,' Apo.,
120;
—— still dwelling (1839-41) on practical abuses and excesses of
Rome, while hoping for ultimate union of Rome and England, Apo.,
121-3;
—— dislike of O'Connell, Apo.,
123, 125;
—— rude to George Spencer, Apo.,
124, 125;
—— 'some savage and ungrateful words against the controversialists
of Rome,' Ess.,
ii, 71, 72;
Apo., 126,
127;
—— went to Littlemore in 1840, Apo.,
130, 131;
—— writes to Keble about giving up St. Mary's, Apo.,
132-6;
—— history of Tract 90 (1841), Apo.,
78-91, 129, 130; Diff.,
ii, 13, 14;
—— the storm, the Heads, the Bishops, Tracts stopped, the
'understanding,' Apo.,
90, 137, 138; V.M.,
ii., 362, 397, 398; the 'understanding' violated by Bishops' Charges, Apo.,
90, 139, 140;
—— the ghost a second time (1841), Apo.,
139;
—— Jerusalem bishopric, protest against: 'it brought me on to the
beginning of the end,' Apo.,
141-7;
—— hints of change, Ess.,
ii., 365-74; Apo.,
162;
—— profession of loyalty to the Church of England as represented
by the Bishop of Oxford (March 29, 1841), V.M.,
ii., 416 (with note), 417;
—— 'from the end of 1841, I was on my deathbed, as regards my
membership with the Anglican Church, though at the time I became aware
of it only by degrees,' Apo.,
147;
—— Oakley's view, that the 39 Articles allowed of 'all Roman
doctrine,' 'I never took this view,' Apo.,
78, 79, 396, 397;
—— view of duty from end of 1841 to resignation of St. Mary's in
autumn of 1843, Apo.,
148;
—— leaves the Via Media for a lower level, 'we were Samaria,' the
Four Sermons, Apo.,
152-6; S.D.,
308-91;
—— the new Movement Party, Oakley, Ward, an embarrassment to
Newman, Apo.,
163, 164, 165, 168, 169, 170, 171;
—— 'I had a secret longing love of Rome and a true devotion to the
Blessed Virgin,' Apo.,
165;
—— 'not from the time that I was first unsettled did I ever
attempt to gain any one over to my Romanizing opinions,' Apo.,
166, 168, 217;
—— 'desired for the Anglican Church a fuller ceremonial and
ritual,' Apo.,
166;
—— 'had a great dislike of paper logic: all the logic in the world
would not have made me move faster,' Apo.,
169; G.A.,
424, 425; D.A.,
294;
—— vulgar curiosity about Littlemore, letter of explanation to the
Bishop of Oxford, Apo.,
171-7;
—— alleged advice to a clergyman to retain his Anglican living
after reception into the Catholic Church, {103} Apo.,
181-4;
—— last sermon, September, 1843; two years in lay communion at
Littlemore, Apo.,
185, 214;
—— statement of his varying position between the two Churches
during last ten years of Anglican life, Apo.,
186;
—— sympathies with Rome have grown (1833-41), reasons for shunning
her not lessened, Apo.,
189;
—— 'the force of this, to me, ineffably cogent argument' from
development, Diff.,
i., 394-6;
—— it showed that 'Rome was in truth ancient Antioch, Alexandria,
and Constantinople, just as a mathematical curve has its own law and
expression,' Apo.,
197, 198: G.A.,
498;
—— philosophical argument that, rightly or wrongly, did actually
influence his conversion, Apo.,
198-200;
—— in February, 1843, formally retracts all hard things said
against Rome, V.M.,
ii., 427-33; Apo.,
200, 216;
—— such things said in all sincerity as a necessity of his
intellectual standpoint, Apo.,201-7;
—— 'angry with the Anglican divines' ' had read the Fathers with
their eyes,' story of the convict who bit off his mother's ear, Apo.,
203; Diff.,
i., 367-73;
—— 'the men who had driven me from Oxford were distinctly the
Liberals': fear that his leaving Anglicanism would be the gain of
Liberalism, Apo.,
203, 204;
—— resignation of St. Mary's, September, 1843, Apo.,
200, 207-9, 213, 214, 216, 221;
—— Lives of the English Saints, Apo.,
210-2, 323-38;
—— 'I am a foreign material, and cannot assimilate with the Church
of England,' Apo.,
220;
—— situation declared in three letters to Archdeacon Manning, Apo.,
219-23;
—— Essay on Doctrinal Development (1845), 'before I got to
the end I resolved to be received,' Apo.,
228, 234;
—— received (8 October, 1845), by the Passionist Father Dominic, Apo.,
234, 235;
—— 'the parting of friends,' S.D.,
409;
—— apologia for his conversion, Ess.,
ii., 426, 427;
—— last words thereupon, Dev.,
445;
—— left Oxford (23 February, 1846), Apo.,
236, 237; H.S.,
iii., 31; L.G.,
353-5;
—— the black willow-leaves, L.G.,
374, 375;
—— the snapdragon, Apo.,
237; V.V.,
21-3;
—— 'Trinity so dear to me,' 'Trinity had never been unkind to me,'
returns as Honorary Fellow of Trinity, Apo.,
237, 390, 391;
—— 'a man who has been obliged for so many years to think aloud,'
'who has been so long before the eyes of the world,' 'who has loved
honesty better than name, and Truth better than dear friends,' Apo.,
pref., p. xvii.; Ess.,
i., pref., pp. viii., ix.;
—— why republished what he wrote as an Anglican, Ess.,
i., pp. vii., viii.;
—— his sentiments on the Church of England in 1843, S.D.,
134-6;
—— on the same after his conversion, 'astonishment that I had ever
imagined it to be a portion of the Catholic Church'; still its
greatness, his indebtedness to it, 'a serviceable breakwater against
doctrinal errors more fundamental than its own,' Apo.,
339-42;
—— as a youth set himself to copy the style of Addison, Johnson,
Gibbon, Idea,
322;
—— his search after a Latin style, helped by Keble's Prælectiones,
Idea, 366-71;
—— admiration of Crabbe's Tales of the Hall, Idea,
150;
—— early drawing to celibacy, Apo.,
7; L.G., 191,
192;
—— his devotional tastes, H.S.,
ii., 217, 218;
—— devotion to St. John Chrysostom, H.S.,
ii., 284-7;
—— his prayer, {104} 'May He support us all the day long, etc.,' S.D.,
307;
—— 'I confess I have no love for suffering at all,' Prepos.,
394, 395; M.D.,
475;
—— establishes the Oratory under Papal direction, O.S.,
290;
—— his prayer for fellow Oratorians, O.S.,
241, 242;
—— public suspicion at his building of the Birmingham Oratory,
'those cellars were cells,' Prepos.,
119-25;
—— his belief in sundry relics and miracles, Prepos.,
312, 313;
—— correspondence thereon with the Bishop of Norwich, Prepos.,
408-16;
—— his perfect content with Catholicism, Apo.,
238, 239: Diff.,
ii., 349;
—— his intellectual submission to the Church, to her dogma, to her
universal traditions, to her new dogmatic decisions, to other
decisions of the Holy See as claiming to be obeyed, his readiness to
preserve Catholic theology, Apo.,
251;
—— his kindness for sincere minds simply perplexed by the
confusion into which recent speculations have thrown their elementary
ideas of religion, Apo.,
262;
—— wish for a champion of revealed truth; why he could not
undertake the office; the enemy's position too variable, Apo.,
262, 263;
—— his friends, Apo.,
283;
—— no turn for casuistry, Apo.,
355;
—— supported by his brother-priests, Apo.,
371, 372;
—— correspondence with Whately in 1834, Apo.,
380-7;
—— accused of preaching the Immaculate Conception in 1835, M.D.,
115, 116, 127; P.S.,
ii., 132;
—— his need of consolation, M.D.,
431, 432;
—— 'I will never have faith in riches, rank, power, or
reputation,' M.D.,
475;
—— his attitude to St. Philip, M.D.,
530;
—— his special devotion to the Holy Ghost when young, M.D.,
549;
—— in the pulpit, S.N.,
Introd., vii.-xii.;
—— his sister's death, V.V.,
26-32;
—— his lighter mood, V.V.,
38, 39;
—— 'the Age to come will think with me,' V.V.,
148;
—— self-reproach in view of St. Philip's example, 'I'm ashamed of
myself, of my tears and my tongue, so easily fretted, so often
unstrung, complaining of heaven and complaining of earth,' V.V.,
312-4;
—— his delight as a Catholic to find the Fathers at last his own, Diff.,
ii., 3;
—— 'the Fathers made me a Catholic,' he prefers them to the
schoolmen, ib., 24;
—— 'accepting as a dogma what I had ever held as a truth,' papal
infallibility, Diff.,
ii., 193, 304;
—— his belief in the deposing power, Diff.,
ii, 220;
—— mourns over the state of Oxford, given up to 'liberalism and
progress,' Diff.,
ii., 268;
—— 'no one can dislike the democratic principle more than I do,' Diff.,
ii., 268;
—— his sense of the 'violence and cruelty' of certain publications
on the Catholic side in 1870, Diff.,
ii., 300;
—— 'I will not believe that the Pope's infallibility will be
defined till defined it is,' Diff.,
ii., 300;
—— letter to Bishop Ullathorne never meant for the public eye, Diff.,
ii., 300, 301;
—— two letters after the definition of Infallibility, Diff.,
ii., 301-5; why introduced, ib., 370, 371;
—— 'from the day I became a Catholic I have never had a moment's
misgiving that the communion of Rome is that Church which the Apostles
set up at Pentecost,'—'never for a moment have I wished myself
back,'—'this is indeed a religion,' Diff.,
ii., 349; Apo.,
238, 239;
—— 'I have had more to afflict me as a Catholic than as an
Anglican,' Diff.,
ii., 349; {105}
—— 'true to one conviction from first to last,' 'till his
Protestantism fell off from him,' G.A.,
245, 247;
—— 'a sentiment habitually in my thoughts on mental or moral
science, that egotism is true modesty,' G.A.,
384-6, 409;
—— in point of liberalism, contrasts himself with Lacordaire, Apo.,
285, 286;
—— writing in prospect of death, 13 March, 1864, M.D.,
607-9;
—— ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem, M.D.,
611; cf. U.S.,
348, 349.
Newton, Bishop, his
Dissertation on the Prophecies, Ess.,
ii., 134, 135;
—— his life contrasted with those of St. Charles Borromeo and St.
Francis of Sales, Ess.,
ii., 135-45;
—— on the Pope as Antichrist, Prepos.,
13, 14; impression to that effect made on Newman in early life, Apo.,
7.
Newton, Sir Isaac, his
doctrine of the limit, illustrates the method of reasoning in concrete
matter, G.A.,
320, 321;
—— his perception of mathematical truth, though formal proof was
absent, natural inference amounting to genius, ib., 333.
Northmen, devastation of
England and Ireland by, H.S.,
iii., 268-71;
—— defeated by Brian Boroimhe, the Irish Alfred, at Clontarf, ib.,
272-4;
—— still the damage they had done unrepaired, ib., 277-86;
—— chivalrous and religious element in the Northman character, ib.,
290-8;
—— Northmen in France as Normans parted with their Scandinavian
barbarism, ib., 302;
—— not so the Danes in Ireland and England until the Norman
conquest, ib., 303-9.
Notion, notional
apprehension, notional assent, as opposed to real, G.A.,
9, 10, 11, 19-23, 32-5, 45, 54, 55, 57, 73, 74, 75;
—— man, notionally apprehended, 'attenuated into an aspect,' 'made
the logarithm of his true self,' G.A.,
31;
—— notional assents under five heads, ib., 42;
—— the notion, falling short of the thing, works out conclusions
not corresponding with things, G.A.,
46, 47, 49;
—— theology, scientific, notional; religion, personal, real,
commonly not real in England except the doctrine of God's Providence, G.A.,
55-7;
—— literary beauty lost in mere notional apprehension, G.A.,
10, 78;
—— theology deals with notional apprehension, religion with
imaginative (real), ib., 119, 120;
—— complex assent always notional, ib., 214-6;
—— a contrast of the notional with the real, made by Napoleon, G.A.,
490, 491.
Notoriety, or newspaper fame,
craze for, Mix.,
90-2;
—— to some a gratification and a snare, O.S.,
242.
Novels, dangerous as
separating feeling from action, P.S.,
ii., 371, 372;
—— 'certain religious novels do more harm than good,' ib.,
ii., 373; cf. Jfc.,
330, 331.
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