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Apologia pro Vita Sua

John Henry Newman

Newman's history of his religious opinions (1865 text), written in 1864 in answer to Charles Kingsley's charge that he had taught that truth was no virtue for the Catholic clergy. Five chapters tell his life from childhood through the Oxford Movement to his reception into the Church in 1845, with the Preface, Notes A to G on liberalism, miracles, the economy and equivocation, and the additional notes and letters of the 1865 edition.

Contents

Source: 17 chapters: Newman Reader page numbers, navigation and its editorial remarks are dropped; Newman's own notes are kept as footnotes. Left out: the Belloc foreword, the list of Newman's works and the empty Supplemental Matter heading. Page references in note titles ("On Page 14") are kept as Newman printed them. Raw page text in sources/en-US-originals/.