Such a college, as you will probably admit, will approach both Rome on
the one hand, and science on the other- Rome, as giving the priesthood
more skill, and therefore as paving the way for their obtaining
greater power, and science, by recognising that even free thought
has a certain kind of value in spiritual enquiries. To this purpose
Pryer and I have resolved to devote ourselves henceforth heart and
soul.
"Of course, my ideas are still unshaped, and all will depend upon
the men by whom the College is first worked. I am not yet a priest,
but Pryer is, and if I were to start the College, Pryer might take
charge of it for a time and I work under him nominally as his
subordinate. Pryer himself suggested this. Is it not generous of him?
"The worst of it is that we have not enough money; I have, it is
true, L5000, but we want at least L10,000, so Pryer says, before we
can start; when we are fairly under weigh I might live at the
college and draw a salary from the foundation, so that it is all
one, or nearly so, whether I invest my money in this way or in
buying a living; besides I want very little; it is certain that I
shall never marry; no clergyman should think of this, and an unmarried
man can live on next to nothing.
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