"Such a position cannot be long maintained, or can only end in the withdrawal of the educated classes from the influences of Religion." (So we are to look for "_the withdrawal of the educated classes from the influences of Religion_[233]!") After anticipating "religious dissolution," because of "the progress of ideas, (!) with which Christian teachers seem to be ill at ease," (!) Mr. Jowett, (who we presume is speaking of himself,) says, "Time was when the Gospel was before the Age:" (The Gospel is therefore now _behind_ the age!)--"when the difficulties of Christianity were difficulties of the heart only:" (When was that?)--"and _the highest minds_ found in its truths not only the rule of their lives, but a well-spring of intellectual delight." (All this then has _ceased to be the case!_ "The highest minds" being of course represented by--Mr. Jowett!) "Is it to be held a thing impossible that the Christian Religion, instead of shrinking into itself, (!) may again _embrace the thoughts of men upon the earth?_" (that is to say, "embrace the thoughts" of--Mr. Jowett!)--"Or is it true that _since the Reformation 'all intellect has gone the other way_?'" "But for the faith that the Gospel might win again the minds of _intellectual men_," (such men as Mr. Jowett?)--"it would be better to leave Religion to itself, instead of attempting to draw them together." (p. 376.) Now this kind of language, in daily life, would be called sheer impertinence; and the person who could talk so before educated gentlemen would probably receive an intimation that he was making himself offensive. He would certainly be looked upon as a weak and conceited person. I really am unable to see why things should be _written and printed_ which no one would presume _to say_! ... Encircled by a little atmosphere of fog of his own creating, Mr. Jowett is evidently under the delusion that his own confused vision and misty language are the result of the giddy eminence to which, (leaving his fellow-mortals far behind him,) he has contrived, all alone, to soar. He anticipates the complaint of some unhappy disciple, that he "experiences a sort of shrinking or dizziness at the prospect which is opening before him:" whereupon Mr. Jowett invites the "highly educated young man," (p. 373,) to consider "that he may possibly not be the person who is called upon to pursue such inquiries." Who are they _for_, then? "No man should busy himself with them who has not clearness of mind enough to see things as they are." (p. 430.) The clearness of mind, for example, which belongs to Mr. Jowett!