Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . irit of the end ofthe century. He exhibited its most strik-ing characteristics: its dependence uponconduct rather than emotion; its glorifi-cation of morality; its humanism, its hun-ger for God, hidden under a pantheisticcomposure; its adoration of Jesus, as the one wholly comforting figure in the bleak perspectives of humanhistory; finally, he held its conception of Christianity as a life, not acreed. The man who wrote, (< The religion of Christ is not a lawbut a spirit, not a creed but a life, had felt within him the forcesof a
Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern . irit of the end ofthe century. He exhibited its most strik-ing characteristics: its dependence uponconduct rather than emotion; its glorifi-cation of morality; its humanism, its hun-ger for God, hidden under a pantheisticcomposure; its adoration of Jesus, as the one wholly comforting figure in the bleak perspectives of humanhistory; finally, he held its conception of Christianity as a life, not acreed. The man who wrote, (< The religion of Christ is not a lawbut a spirit, not a creed but a life, had felt within him the forcesof a new realization of religion as yet unperceived by his suffered in consequence the pangs of those who travail to bringforth the new which will supplant the old. His short life of thirty-seven years was lived in a transitionalperiod of Englands spiritual development, when through the pray-ers of both ritualist and evangelical might be heard strange voicesspeaking of strange things,— of a universe emptied of God, of manwithout a soul,xxi—770. F. W. Robertson I23o6 FREDERICK WILLIAM ROBERTSON Robertson was born in 1816, in London. His father was a captainin the Royal Artillery; the boy grew up therefore in the atmosphereof the military life, and imbibed not a few of its nobler ideals. Untilhe was five years old he was at Leith Fort, where his father wasstationed. In 1821 the latter retired to Beverley; there Robertsonattended the grammar school, going later to Tours for the sake oflearning the French tongue. After a year he returned home, contin-uing his education at the Edinburgh Academy and then at the Uni-versity. His elevation of character, his nobility of mind, led to aproposal from his father that he should enter the church; but he re-fused on the ground of his unworthiness. At the age of eighteen hewas articled to a solicitor in Bury St. Edmunds; but a years studyso undermined his health that he was obliged to give up the projectof studying the law. His nam
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