English literature in account with religion, 1800-1900 . THE NEWER FICTION 561 of the century which we have traversed; in certaindirections the result has seemed revolutionary, andhas been attended by the disorder and loss alwaysincident to revolution ; but faithful men are con-fident of ultimate gain, and much of this gain alongthe Hues indicated has already been realized. Great literature can spring only from the deeperexperiences of life. It can gain imperishable formonly through high and sustained flights of thetrained imagination. Religion searches the depthsof mans heart; while at the sa
English literature in account with religion, 1800-1900 . THE NEWER FICTION 561 of the century which we have traversed; in certaindirections the result has seemed revolutionary, andhas been attended by the disorder and loss alwaysincident to revolution ; but faithful men are con-fident of ultimate gain, and much of this gain alongthe Hues indicated has already been realized. Great literature can spring only from the deeperexperiences of life. It can gain imperishable formonly through high and sustained flights of thetrained imagination. Religion searches the depthsof mans heart; while at the same time it has beena chief inspirer of his imagination, holding visionsbefore his eyes and fixing his thoughts upon themesof origin and destiny. It has led him moreover tothink of these things, not as mere idle dreams orcurious problems, but as personal concerns of vitalmoment. The influence of religion upon literaturehas been great, because the experience of religionhas upon the whole been INDEX A. L. O. E.»504. Abraham, 17. Accomplishment, emphasis putupon, in the 19th century, 31. Adams, Prof. G. B., his addressHistory and the Philosophy ofHistory, 495. * Adaptation to environment, 134. Adonais, Shelleys, quoted, 126. Aeschylus, animated by religiousidea of tragedy, 22. Agassiz, L. J. R., 414. Agnosticism, and agnostics, 412-415,442; novels of, 517-524. Alastor, Shelleys, preface to, quot-ed, 118. Alton Locke, Kingsley, 297. Ancient Mariner, The, Coleridges,a work of genius, 84. Anti-slavery agitation, 175. Aphorisms, the making of, 534,635. Apologia, Newman, 196. Archer, William, cited, 460, 489 n.,491 n. Ariel and Caliban, Coleridges crit-icism upon the characters of, 107. Arnold, Matthew, on Wordsworth,61, 72; on Coleridge, 77; hiscriticism of Byron, 106; underforty when he wrote of doubtand disillusion, 424; religion achief source of his inspiration,431; compared with Clough, 431,432; compared with his father,432, 433; note of blithesomeness,almost wholly lacking
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