¹⁷ The Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States, after its separate organization, first sought episcopal ordination from Denmark; but, before the negotiations were completed, an act of Parliament was passed, which empowered the Archbishop of Canterbury to ordain bishops for a foreign country

¹⁸Is not botany a science, and do not flowers live? Similarly it may be remarked that anthropology is a science, and so of other branches of knowledge. Modern opinion is decidedly trending against the assumption that the application of scientific study to religion is either barred or impossible. Indeed, theologians are growing more favorable to science as furnishing aid in establishing a firmer basis for theology.

¹⁹Pope's Works, ii. 463–464.

²⁰Taylor's translation of Goethe's "Faust," vol. i., scene XVI., pp. 221–222.

²¹Wordsworth "Ode to Immortality."

²²The Ring and the Book, Crowell's ed. "The Pope," x. 1303–18.

²³Christmas Eve, ib., iv. 286–327. The whole poem is full of the divinity of Christ.

²⁴The Ring and the Book, Crowell's ed. "The Pope," x. 1303–18.

²⁵Christmas Eve, ib., iv. 286–327. The whole poem is full of the divinity of Christ.

²⁶An Epistle of Karshish, ib., v. 10–22, 305–307, 311.

²⁷A Death in the Desert, ib. v. 686.

²⁸The Ring and the Book; "The Pope," x. 375–376, ib., vii. 175.

²⁹Dramatic Lyrics; "By the Fireside," xxvii. ib., iv. 131.

³⁰Dramatis Personæ; "Epilogue, Third Speaker," xii., ib., v. 280.

³¹E. Berdoe, Browning and the Christian Faith, pp. 42, 43, 45 (London, 1898).

³²S. A. Brooke, Tennyson: his Art and Relation to Modern Life, p. 30 (New York, 1894).