TheVictorians

"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


The Tractarians by pointing to the Church, the Arnoldian school by their ...

The Tractarians by pointing to the Church, the Arnoldian school by their vivid realization of history, had relieved the intense introversion of Evangelicalism.' But lacking faith, the individual was released from his own prison only to find himself alone in an indifferent universe.

Kingsley was relieving many souls of their burden by communicating his own delight in the body, in the ardours of exploration, sport, and sex.

His conjecture that the First Cause would turn out to be a 'smudgy person with a sub-intelligent look about the eyes is very much in the manner of Butler, and therefore of Mr Shaw. For Newman, see the profound diagnosis of Evangelicalism at the end of the Lectures on Justification, which, translated out of the technical terms of theology, is applicable to the whole age.

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The years through which we have been passing afford some confirmation of ...