[Extract of a letter from F. W. Newman to James Martineau , 28 October 1856:]

        Your article[*] concerning my brother amazes me by the inexhaustible fund of patience which you possess, still more than it interests me in all other respects. How you can read, on and on, disentangling such webs, I cannot conceive. As to Maurice, I am sure that you understand him, and on your testimony I believe that there is in him a noble and self-consistent religious theory; but that will not enable me to suspect that it is my fault and not his that I find him obscure. If he will teach popular duty, it is his task to come within popular comprehension; and he does not.

    [*Bibliographical Reference: James Martineau, "Personal Influences on Our Present Theology: Newman—Coleridge—Carlyle," National Review 3 (October 1856): 449-94; rpt. in Essays, Philosophical and Theological (London: Trübner and Co., 1866), 329-405, and in Essays, Reviews, and Addresses, Vol. 1: Personal, Political (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1890), 219-81.—FWNRC.]