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Page 53
... reform of Ruskin , the historical schools of Froude and Lecky , the theological schools of Maurice and Kingsley , the theistic schools of Francis Newman , W. R. Greg , Fitz- james Stephen , C. Voysey , we may see how typical a force is ...
... reform of Ruskin , the historical schools of Froude and Lecky , the theological schools of Maurice and Kingsley , the theistic schools of Francis Newman , W. R. Greg , Fitz- james Stephen , C. Voysey , we may see how typical a force is ...
Page 57
... reform . We need not now nicely weigh in the balance all the strange genius of the great historian ; but we note how strongly his posthumous Memoirs illustrate the morbid side of his unlovely creed . Those who love him will turn aside ...
... reform . We need not now nicely weigh in the balance all the strange genius of the great historian ; but we note how strongly his posthumous Memoirs illustrate the morbid side of his unlovely creed . Those who love him will turn aside ...
Page 156
... the lower orders . " For a generation now it has been using its whole strength to resist all people's reform , to resist temperance legislation , and especially to resist the exten- sion 156 THE POSITIVE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
... the lower orders . " For a generation now it has been using its whole strength to resist all people's reform , to resist temperance legislation , and especially to resist the exten- sion 156 THE POSITIVE EVOLUTION OF RELIGION.
Page 157
... reform - and that makes the strength of this na- tion . And the Church moves with it and passes into a new phase . Seventy years ago , when I was a schoolboy , Simeon Evangelicalism was dominant . Churches in many places , both town and ...
... reform - and that makes the strength of this na- tion . And the Church moves with it and passes into a new phase . Seventy years ago , when I was a schoolboy , Simeon Evangelicalism was dominant . Churches in many places , both town and ...
Page 158
... reform in the Church ensued . Abuses were abolished , the scandalous greed and nepot- ism of Prelates ceased , the vulgarity and secularism of the parsonages abated , the neglect of the poor in the cities was remedied . In many , this ...
... reform in the Church ensued . Abuses were abolished , the scandalous greed and nepot- ism of Prelates ceased , the vulgarity and secularism of the parsonages abated , the neglect of the poor in the cities was remedied . In many , this ...
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Page 181 - ... the Dissidence of Dissent and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion. I do not say that other and more intelligent forces than this were not opposed to the Oxford movement : but this was the force which really beat it ; this was the force which Dr. Newman...