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Sermons, Chiefly on the Theory of Religious Belief, Preached before the University of Oxford is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Collected Works of John Henry Newman (31 Vols.) includes over two hundred fifty sermons from Newman. Newman's professional career spanned nearly seventy years, during which time he held the position of vicar at Oriel College, Oxford, rector of University College, Dublin, priest at Birmingham Oratory and was appointed to the college of Cardinals in 1879. Parochial and Plain Sermons, Sermons...

whether good or bad; and that, in matter of fact, it is recognized and upheld by the mass of men, taken as individuals, not merely approved by them, taken as a mass, in which some have influence over others,—not merely submitted to with a blind, but true instinct, such as is said to oppress inferior animals in the presence of man, but literally advocated from an enlightened capacity for criticising it; and, in consequence of this notion, some men go so far as to advise, that the cause of Truth should
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