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Excerpt from Meditations and Devotions of the Late Cardinal Newman
But there are not the materials for such a book. All, then, that has been possible towards carrying out the Cardinal's intention has been to put together such papers as, from what was said by the Cardinal, are considered as likely to have come within the corn 'pass of the contemplated volume. It is 'hoped that 'this will gratify many of the late Cardinal's friends, some of whom have expressed a strong desire to have some examples of his devotions, or to know the de votions which most attracted him, and which they might make their own. the Meditations on Chris tian Doctrine would probably have been more nu merous, but that the.cardinal destroyed many such writings of his upon the death of his great friend Father St. 'john, to whose discretion he had intended to commit them. There are-here included, therefore, it is believed, nearly all of the Cardinal's devotional papers which are likely to be forthcoming.
That the papers can be presented at all, especially the majority of the Meditations, is owing, it is be 'lieved, to the Circumstances which accompanied their origin. It was the Cardinal's custom to note down, 'in the roughest way, any thought that particularly struck him while meditating, that he might re?ect upon it during the day or pursue it in the future.
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