=215=: 16. =Conditions of the poetical mind.= Mark the line drawn between the sources of true poetry and the actual practices of the poet. Compare with the theory of Wordsworth, to find likenesses on this point. THE INFINITUDE OF THE DIVINE ATTRIBUTES =Introductory Note.= This and other typical addresses are comprised in _Discourses to Mixed Congregations_. The unerring taste of Newman employs the grave, dignified style suited to the subject-matter, which, however, never loses the simplicity and charm we expect in him. =218=: 28. =The elements.= Earth, air, fire, and water were believed primal elements by the ancients. =220=: 27. =This season.= Lent, which commemorates the Sacred Passion of Christ. =221=: 21. =He seems to say=: to the end. An illustration of Newman's sweet, impassioned eloquence. His sentences roll on like music of indefinable tenderness and beauty. What wonder if men "who came to scoff remained to pray," when the tones of that voice Matthew Arnold could not describe--for its singular sweetness--fell upon their listening souls? CHRIST UPON THE WATERS =Introductory Note.= This discourse was written from notes of a sermon preached at Birmingham, on occasion of the installation of Dr. Ullathorne as first bishop of the see. Again it says to us, "I believe, therefore I have spoken." =222=: 20. "=Day to day.=" See Psalm xviii. 2. =222=: 25. =Impossibilities.= Extrinsic impossibilities, that is, those things whose elements are not metaphysically opposed, one to another. =223=: 1. =He came.= See St. Matthew xiv. 24, 27. =223=: 24. =That mystical ark.= The Church, called the ark because prefigured by the Ark of Noe,--the House of Salvation. =224=: 14. =Christ in His ark.= "Behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world." St. Matthew xxviii. 20. =224=: 17. =A savage tribe.= The Anglo-Saxons of Teutonic stock and sprung from the Aryan branch of the human family. =226= to =228=. =It was a proud race ... hierarchical form.= A passage of inimitable grace and simplicity. Note the sentence-structure, the repetition of "it" in the last sentence, and other features of the consummate master. =227=: 4. =Too fair to be heathen.= On seeing some Angles in Rome, Pope Gregory exclaimed, "They should rather be called Angels than Angles." =228=: 5. =A brotherhood ... below.= Where in the range of English prose is to be found form wedded to sense in a more surpassingly beautiful way? Neither music, nor painting, nor poetry, can have anything more exquisite to yield, it would seem. Other numbers of this volume equally admirable are _The Second Spring_, _The Tree beside the Waters_, and _Intellect the Instrument of Religious Training_. THE SECOND SPRING