Once more. Although the cold shade of unbelief has never for an instant, (thank GOD!) darkened my spirit; so that one may not be very apt to sympathize with men who walk about hampered with a doubt; yet, were one to know, (as one has often known,--_too_ often, alas!) that the arrow was rankling in a friend's heart,--who by consequence shunned the society of his fellows, and walked in moody abstraction,--looking as if life had lost its charm, and as if nothing on the earth's surface were any longer to him a joy;--would one not be the first to go after such a sufferer; and seek whether a firm hand and steady eye might not avail to extract the poisoned shaft? If that might not be, at least by daily acts of unaltered kindness, and the ways which brotherly sympathy suggests, _who_ would not strive to recover such an one? If all other arts proved unavailing, it would remain for a man with the ordinary instincts of humanity, in silence and sorrow at least, to look on, while the solitary doubter was paying the bitter penalty,--doubtless, of his sin. But how widely different,--rather, how utterly dissimilar,--is the phenomenon before us! Here is a singularly confused and shallow thinker oppressed with the vastness of his discovery, that the Bible--_has nothing in it!_ Here is a Clergyman of the Church of England, and a Lecturer in Divinity, whose difficulty is how he shall convince the world that the Bible is--_like any other book!_ Here is the sceptical fellow of a College, conspiring with six others, to produce a volume of which Germany itself, (having changed its mind,) would already be ashamed!... Mr. Jowett is enthusiastic for _a negation!_ Without belief himself, he cannot rest because Christendom has, on the whole, a good deal of belief remaining! If he may but _unsettle somebody's mind_,--his Essay will have achieved its purpose, and its author will not have lived in vain!... Sublime privilege for "the only man in the University of Oxford who" is said to "exercise a moral and spiritual influence at all corresponding to that which was once wielded by John Henry Newman[232]!"