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HOUG/D/C/3/4/3
Title
Letter from William Coningham to Richard Monckton Milnes
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- [1849] (Creation)
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2 ff.
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Re the Froude affair, Coningham cannot give as much as Milnes suggests because Froude is wilfully pursuing the wrong course: 'He requires a practical belief to live by - the Germans can only fling him headlong into materialism, the slough of despond of feeble minds, or intoxicate him with an unpractical mysticism...'