Oxford or a Letter to the Rev. J. H. Newman on of the Tracts for the Times #228163

In thus venturing to enter the lists with you, in the arena of polemical discussion, I am well aware that I run no small risk of being charged with presumption. You are the avowed and revered leader of a powerful and daily increasing body, either in or out of the church — you are practised in controversy, skilled in casuistical niceties, and deeply read in all the most re condite lore of ecclesiastical history and tradition.