Excerpt from Philosophy and the Christian Religion: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on May 4, 1920
Notwithstanding striking differences, these three men have also much in common; and more than can be accounted for by the academic tradition which links with the author of the Analogy the great leader of the Oxford Movement of the last century, who has borne witness that the study of that famous book - then at the height of its influence in the Schools of Oxford - was an era in his religious opinions; and with both these the most accomplished poet of the undergraduate generation which watched spell-bound that leader's gradual withdrawal from the University over whose youth his genius had held so potent a sway, and which he had once believed was to be his 'perpetual residence even unto death'; a poet, moreover one of whose earliest sonnets was written - in a mood, it is true, of some impatience with their analytic method - in his copy of Butler's Sermons.
The Oriel worthies whom I have named were linked together not only by the bond of academic tradition but by a mastering love of righteousness, which made them all in their philosophy of religion emphasize above everything else the connexion of Religion with Morality; and also by a certain austere melancholy in their outlook upon life, which, if more obvious in Butler and in Newman than in Matthew Arnold, whose keen wit and gay persiflage may sometimes cheat the student of his theological works into misapprehension of his true temper, is yet plain enough to the sympathetic reader of his poetry.
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