'40. Marquis of Salisbury: They come in in spite of the existing tests?
'Yes.
'41. Do you think that that is probably due either to some subsequent change of opinion on their part, or to a peculiar elasticity of mind?
'It is due to the loss of common honesty and morality, I think.'
'1001. Earl of Morley: I think you mentioned the fact of several fellows having retired who had formerly taken the tests. Would you like to mention any instances of that?
'Dr. Lightfoot: I am not in a position to say exactly the motives which led them to resign their fellowships; but there have been two or three instances quite lately where persons have resigned fellowships, and I believe they have done so on account of religious scruples.
'1302. Do those facts have rather a bad effect upon the undergraduates, do you think?
'I think they have. That is my reason for desiring a change. They create a prejudice against religion.'
Lord E. Fitzmaurice, in the debate on clerical fellowships, is reported to have said:—
'The clerical fellows might be classed as those who wore white ties and those who went without. The first class steadily opposed all progress in the universities, and the last merely took orders to obtain the fellowship. These latter, in fact, threw away the outward visible sign of that inward and spiritual grace which they were conscious they did not possess.'