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EXTRACT

“In one thing Newman far surpassed Wesley:  he was a man of letters equal to the greatest writers of prose his native country had brought forth.  The Catholic Reaction of the Nineteenth Century claims its place in literature, thanks to this incomparable talent, side by side with the German mysticism of Carlyle, the devout liberalism of Tennyson, the lyric Utopias of Shelley, and the robust optimism of Browning.  Newman is an English classic.”

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