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[Letter of Francis William Newman to Dr. Chapman] 2 Mall, Clifton, Dear Sir, I have read with great interest the article on Ecce Homo in the Westm. Rev. So many more are now able to write such an article than 20 or even 10 years ago, that I feel it vain to conjecture who is the writer. But I congratulate you on the article. I am glad to find that you assented to the republication of my article on the Religious Weakness of Protestantism: for one other friend has expressed to me his wish to publish it with my name. As it did harm to the sale of the Westm., I should be disposed (if he perseveres in the desire) to suppress all allusion to the Westminster. I am sure that you, like all others, must be deeply interested in the great German revolution. I am hitherto delighted, & if I were a Prussian citizen, should now forgive Bismarck for his unconstitutional violence, which was his only way of getting the armies & finance requisite for his grand designs; which also in fact cloaked them to every body until the crisis came. I am— Sincerely yours,
P.S. I am here in lodgings, but hope to be in my new house (1 Dover Place, Clifton) on the 1st August.
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