Robert Browning . Eiiirlnnd. To admire Bi-owiiiiio- ])cejime a badge of mental celectieism, and serious minds that would no loner professCliristianity professed Browning. He was tlie religious life-buoy of cultured doubt, a refuge from Darwin, a shelter fromHuxley. Religious tliought has emerged from its temporary panic,and now fears tiie doctrine of evolution no more than the doctrineof gravitation. Dogma has ceased to be dogmatic, and culture UOHKKT JJKOWMXC, 25 ROBERT I-;BROWNING FrojH a ihotograph by Elliott &= Fry. is once more turniiio- towards a spiritual tlieolot»y. based on tlierealit
Robert Browning . Eiiirlnnd. To admire Bi-owiiiiio- ])cejime a badge of mental celectieism, and serious minds that would no loner professCliristianity professed Browning. He was tlie religious life-buoy of cultured doubt, a refuge from Darwin, a shelter fromHuxley. Religious tliought has emerged from its temporary panic,and now fears tiie doctrine of evolution no more than the doctrineof gravitation. Dogma has ceased to be dogmatic, and culture UOHKKT JJKOWMXC, 25 ROBERT I-;BROWNING FrojH a ihotograph by Elliott &= Fry. is once more turniiio- towards a spiritual tlieolot»y. based on tlierealities of relitrious experience rather tlian on the iinreahties ofabstract ideas. 15ro\viiing is, therefore, rapidly becoming a sociolonicaldocmiieiit, a picture of a passing posture of the human hundred years hence liis works will be read only by theprofessional man of letters, unless some of his shorter poemsare preserved in twenty-tirst century anthologies. It may seem
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