TO LEWIS CAMPBELL, Esq.
Trin. Coll., 3d Dec. 1853.
.
. . We have the usual amount
of discussion
here on labour parliaments,
multiplicity of votes, Eternity and Maurice and
Jelf, or
the
contest between those who think that there is a real depth to which
thought
must go, though words cannot well follow it, and
those who
maintain that that which is not obvious to a man of sense, cannot be
really
connected with a religion which is not confined to deep thinkers, but
professes
to afford the highest principles to the simple. That is what
most
men discuss. Maurice has settled it for himself, believing that the
things
of which he
treats do actually form the necessary thoughts of all men whether
learned
or no.
