Bristol is preparing to erect a memorial to Bishop Butler,—
one of the few great English thinkers of the eighteenth century who have retained, and perhaps even increased, their hold over the minds of men in the nineteenth,—by building one of the western towers of Bristol Cathedral, now in process of restoration, as a monument to his memory, Bristol having been his first see before he was translated to Durham. The idea would be a good one if it were possible in any way to ear-mark a tower in a great building as a personal monument. But is there not something clumsy in that idea? Indeed, is there not something gauche in the English theory of monuments generally ? Every trite use of the analogical method is a tribute to the great author of " The Analogy." But there is no very close analogy between Bishop Butler and a tower even of that cathedral where his body lies.
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