, all marking the time of one of God's peculiar seasons of
visitation'. His only uncertainty was whether this termination of
an aion would turn out to be the absolutely final one; but that
he believed 'no created being knows or can know'. In any case, he
had 'not the slightest expectation of what is commonly meant by
the Millennium'. And his only consolation was that he preferred
the present Ministry, inefficient as it was, to the Tories.
He had planned a great work on Church and State, in which he
intended to lay bare the causes and to point out the remedies of
the evils which afflicted society. Its theme was to be, not the
alliance or union, but the absolute identity of the Church and
the State; and he felt sure that if only this fundamental truth
were fully realised by the public, a general reformation would
follow. Unfortunately, however, as time went on, the public
seemed to realise it less and less. In spite of his protests, not
only were Jews admitted to Parliament, but a Jew was actually
appointed a governor of Christ's Hospital; and Scripture was not
made an obligatory subject at the London University.
There was one point in his theory which was not quite plain to
Dr. Arnold. If Church and State were absolutely identical, it
became important to decide precisely which classes of persons
were to be excluded, owing to their beliefs, from the community.
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