Shelleys Principles Has Time Refuted Or Confirmed Them
Shelleys Principles Has Time Refuted Or Confirmed Them
Henry Stephens Salt
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For holding and publishing these views, he was ostracised and insulted ; and now the same views are held as a matter of course by a vast number, probably a vast majority, of earnest and thoughtful men, the only difference being that the colourless title of ** agnosticism " has been substituted for the more expressive word which Shelley with characteristic ardour, ** took up and wore as a gauntlet. " It is the habit of Shelley's apologetic admirers to minimise the fact of his departure from the ...orthodox faith, and even to suggest that, had he lived longer, he might, by some unexplained process of reasoning, have found him- self at one with Christianity, perhaps, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne's ironical suggestion, to the extent of Shelley^ s Principles. 37 taking holy orders, and being " inducted to a small country living in the gift of the lord chancellor. " * The new criticism bluntly declares that this idea is nonsensical ; and recognising that Shelley's belief, whether for good or ill, was in direct antagonism to established religion, points further to the fact that the verdict of time, so far as it has yet been delivered, is strongly in favour of free-thought which Shelley so strenu- ously asserted.
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