Note 30 — Chapter XXXI · LATIN HYMNOLOGY AND PROTESTANTISM.

John Henry Newman, in his Letter to Dr. Jelf in vindication of his Tract No. XC., wrote: “I always have contended, and will contend, that it [the religious revival] is not satisfactorily accounted for by any particular movements of individuals upon a particular spot. The poets and philosophers of the age have borne witness to it for many years. Those great names in our literature, Sir Walter Scott, Mr. Wordsworth, Mr. Coleridge, though in different ways, and with essential differences one from another and perhaps from any Church system, still all bear witness to it. The system of Mr. Irving is another witness to it. The age is moving toward something, and, most unhappily, the one religious communion which has of late years been practically in possession of that something, is the Church of Rome.”