text:  It was in fact (in spirit and tendency though not in outward accomplishment ) to German literature twenty years ago what Puseyism is now to the English church--it was a bold and grand attempt to get rid of those vexing doubts and disputes on the most important subjects that will ever disquiet minds of a certain constitution so long as they have nothing to lean on but their own judgment; and as Protestantism when consistently carried out summarily throws a man back on his individual opinion and subjects the vastest and most momentous questions to the scrutiny of reason and the torture of doubt therefore Schlegel in literary Germany and Pusey in ecclesiastical England were equally forced if they would not lose Christianity altogether to renounce Protestantism and to base their philosophy upon sacerdotal authority and ecclesiastical tradition