Transcriber's Notes: Greek words in this text have been transliterated and placed between +plus signs+. Words in italics in the original are surrounded by underscores. A row of asterisks represents a thought break.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in the original. Words with and without accents appear as in the original. In this text, semi-colons and colons are used indiscriminately. They appear as in the original. Ellipses match the original.
A few typographical errors have been corrected. A complete list follows the text.
AN ESSAY
ON THE
DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE.
BY
JOHN HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN.
SIXTH EDITION
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS NOTRE DAME, INDIANA
TO THE
REV. SAMUEL WILLIAM WAYTE, B.D.
PRESIDENT OF TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD.
MY DEAR PRESIDENT,
Not from any special interest which I anticipate you will take in this Volume, or any sympathy you will feel in its argument, or intrinsic fitness of any kind in my associating you and your Fellows with it,--
But, because I have nothing besides it to offer you, in token of my sense of the gracious compliment which you and they have paid me in making me once more a Member of a College dear to me from Undergraduate memories;--
Also, because of the happy coincidence, that whereas its first publication was contemporaneous with my leaving Oxford, its second becomes, by virtue of your act, contemporaneous with a recovery of my position there:--
Therefore it is that, without your leave or your responsibility, I take the bold step of placing your name in the first pages of what, at my age, I must consider the last print or reprint on which I shall ever be engaged.
I am, my dear President, Most sincerely yours, JOHN H. NEWMAN.
February 23, 1878.