verity. Buried in the details, he had hitherto ignored the fact that
they were only the unessential developments of certain component
parts. Awakening to the perception of the whole after an intimate
acquaintance with the details, he was able to realise the position
and meaning of all that he had hitherto experienced in a way which
has been vouchsafed to few, if any others.

Thus he became truly a broad Churchman. Not broad in the ordinary
and ill-considered use of the term (for the broad Churchman is as
little able to sympathise with Romanists, extreme High Churchmen and
Dissenters, as these are with himself--he is only one of a sect which
is called by the name broad, though it is no broader than its own
base), but in the true sense of being able to believe in the
naturalness, legitimacy, and truth qua Christianity even of those
doctrines which seem to stand most widely and irreconcilably asunder.



CHAPTER II



But it was impossible that a mind of such activity should have gone
over so much ground, and yet in the end returned to the same position
as that from which it started.

So far was this from being the case that the Christianity of his
maturer life would be considered dangerously heterodox by those who
belong to any of the more definite or precise schools of theological
thought. He was as one who has made the circuit of a mountain, and