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"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'.


But it was to be built by some magic of goodwill overriding ...

But it was to be built by some

magic of goodwill overriding the egoism of

progress; not by law, and most emphatically not by logic. The economists and the reformers had drawn the bow too tight: it almost snapped in their hands.

But so, too,

had the Evangelicals, and even goodwill was suspected

if it came arrayed in religious guise.

At the sight of Wilberforce, Cobbett put his head down and charged. Young Anglicans were prepared to defend black slavery only because the Evangelicals were against it.

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Sir Phillip Agnew's Sunday Observance Bill, the most rigorous piece of moral-and, ...

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The year 1840 saw the chimney-sweeping children brought under public protection. The ...

The year 1840 saw the chimney-sweeping children brought under public protection.

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