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        I fear you will hardly read this. . . . My new idea is perhaps with you very old. . . . Asked what is a Christian I reply, one who earnestly "uses in word and substance the traditional prayer of Jesus, older than any Gospel—this supplants all creeds."

    *Bruce, in reference to the previous letter Newman had sent to Swanwick, suggests, "A few days afterwards, forgetting that he had already written, [Newman] penned with great difficulty these lines."