And he was especially near to the Church in this:  that having discussed a truth he was compelled to fight for it and to wound actively in fighting, He was an agent, He did, He saw that the mass of stuff clinging round the mind of wealthy England was decaying, He turned with regret towards the healthy visions of Europe and called them illusions because they were not provable, and because all provable things showed a flee other than that of the creed and were true in another manner.  He despised the cowardice —­for it is cowardice—­that pretends to intellectual conviction and to temporal evidence of the things of the soul.  He saw and said, and he was right in saying, that the City of God is built upon things incredible.

“Incredibilia nec crederim, nisi me compelleret ecclesiae auctoritas”

H. Belloc.

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The following is a list of the published works of J. A. Froude.  “Life of St. Neot” ("Lives of the English Saints,” edited by J. H. Newman), 1844.  “Shadows of the Clouds” (Tales), by Zeta (pseud.), 1847.  “A Sermon (on 2 Cor. vii. 10) preached at St. Mary’s Church on the Death of the Rev. George May Coleridge,” 1847.  Article on “Spinoza” (Oxford and Cambridge Review), 1847.  “The Nemesis of Faith” (Tale), 1849.  “England’s Forgotten Worthies” (Westminster Review), 1852.  “Book of Job” (Westminster Review), 1853.  “Poems of Matthew Arnold” (Westminster Review), 1854.  “Suggestions on the Best Means of Teaching English History” ("Oxford Essays,” &c.), 1855.  “History of England,” 12 vols., 1856-1870 “The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character,” 1865.  “Inaugural Address delivered to the University of St. Andrews, March 19, 1869,” 1869.  “Short Studies on Great Subjects,” 1867, 2 vols., series 2-4, 1872-83 (articles from Fraser’s Magazine, Westminster Review, &c.).  “The Cat’s Pilgrimage,” 1870 “Calvinism:  Address at St. Andrews,” 1871.  “The English in Ireland,” 3 vols., 1872-74.  “Bunyan” ("English Men of Letters"), 1878.  “Caesar:  a Sketch,” 1879.  “Two Lectures on South Africa,” 1880.  “Thomas Carlyle” (a history of the first forty years of his life, &c.), 2 vols., 1882.  “Luther:  a Short Biography,” 1883.  “Thomas Carlyle” (a history of his life in London, 1834-80, 2 vols., 1884.  “Oceana,” 1886.  “The English in the West Indies,” 1888.  “Liberty and Property:  an Address” [1888.] “The Two Chiefs of Dunboy,” 1889.  “Lord Beaconsfield” (a Biography), 1890.  “The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon,” 1891.  “The Spanish Story of the Armada,” 1892.  “Life and Letters of Erasmus,” 1894.  “English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century,” 1895.  “Lectures on the Council of Trent,” 1896.  “My Relations with Carlyle,” 1903.

Edited—­“Carlyle’s Reminiscences,” 1882.  “Mrs. Carlyle’s Letters,” 1883.

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ARNOLD’S POEMS