When, in his tract on Chartism, Carlyle essayed to translate the verities ...
When, in his tract on Chartism, Carlyle essayed to translate the verities into practice, he had nothing to suggest that half the parsons in the land did not know already: that everybody should be sent to school and the odd man to the colonies.
In religion they were coming to differ deeply, as the strong surviving vein of Augustan rationalism was reinforced by the conclusions of Victorian science.
But the sanctions of orthodoxy were still formidable, and in a world where Prometheus Unbound might be judicially held to be a blasphemous libel, a certain economy in the communication of unbelief was evidently advisable.
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In the eighteenth century the mill often furnished the mill owner’s harem: ...
In the eighteenth century the mill often furnished the mill owner’s harem: in our period rarely. I cannot resist the conclusion that the current religion did sometimes act a
The sense of being under a Code accompanies us through the early ...
The sense of being under a Code accompanies us through the early Victorian decades. To the age of revolt, which runs from Rousseau to Shelley, succeeds the age of a
A guilty conscience has never betrayed itself by a more superior sniff. ...
A guilty conscience has never betrayed itself by a more superior sniff. Absurdity and impropriety, like domesticated dragons, guard the stability of society and the peace of the home