The Victorian Age in Literature
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He was a sort of Heaven-sent courier. His frontal attack on the vulgar and sullen optimism of Victorianutility may be summoned up in the admirable sentence, in which he askedthe English what was the use of a train taking them quickly fromIslington to Camberwell, if it only took them "from a dismal andilliberal life in Islington to a dismal and illiberal life inCamberwell?" His attitude to that great religious enigma round which all these greatmen were grouped as in a ring, was individual and de...cidedly curious. Heseems to have believed that a "Historic Church, " that is, someestablished organisation with ceremonies and sacred books, etc. , couldbe perpetually preserved as a sort of vessel to contain the spiritualideas of the age, whatever those ideas might happen to be. He clearlyseems to have contemplated a melting away of the doctrines of the Churchand even of the meaning of the words: but he thought a certain need inman would always be best satisfied by public worship and especially bythe great religious literatures of the past.
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He was a sort of Heaven-sent courier. His frontal attack on the vulgar and sullen optimism of Victorianutility may be summoned up in the admirable sentence, in which he askedthe English what was the use of a train taking them quickly fromIslington to Camberwell, if it only took them "from a dismal andilliberal life in Islington to a dismal and illiberal life inCamberwell?" His attitude to that great religious enigma round which all these greatmen were grouped as in a ring, was individual and de...cidedly curious. Heseems to have believed that a "Historic Church, " that is, someestablished organisation with ceremonies and sacred books, etc. , couldbe perpetually preserved as a sort of vessel to contain the spiritualideas of the age, whatever those ideas might happen to be. He clearlyseems to have contemplated a melting away of the doctrines of the Churchand even of the meaning of the words: but he thought a certain need inman would always be best satisfied by public worship and especially bythe great religious literatures of the past.
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