ABSTRACT
1839
An excerpt from an unsigned review, ‘The State of Religious Parties’, British Critic (April 1839), xxv, 395–426.
The writer was John Henry Cardinal Newman; or at least he claims total authorship in a note appended to a reprint of the article in his Collected Works (London, 1874–1921), iii, 308.
According to Newman in his Apologia pro Vita Sua this article ‘contains the last words which I ever spoke as an Anglican to Anglicans. It may now be read as my parting address and valediction, made to my friends.’ In the passage immediately preceding the excerpt below, Newman has enumerated several causes for the progress of the tractarian movement.
