Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . as never made fetishes of milestonesor set up its abiding rest by them. The finger-postspoint onwards. Tennyson and Darwin are behind us. Elsewherethan in Cambridge the sound of their new gospelcalled for a halt and a retrospect. It was not so atCambridge. There the doctrines of evolution andordered progress were accepted with caution andassimilated only by degrees. They encountered noviolent antagonism, and they were precipitated byno excess of enthusiasm. There is a letter
Cambridge and its history : with sixteen illustrations in colour by Maxwell Armfield, and sixteen other illustrations . as never made fetishes of milestonesor set up its abiding rest by them. The finger-postspoint onwards. Tennyson and Darwin are behind us. Elsewherethan in Cambridge the sound of their new gospelcalled for a halt and a retrospect. It was not so atCambridge. There the doctrines of evolution andordered progress were accepted with caution andassimilated only by degrees. They encountered noviolent antagonism, and they were precipitated byno excess of enthusiasm. There is a letter of Kings-leys, written to A. P. Stanley at the height of thefever about Essays and Reviews, which characteris-tically describes the attitude of Cambridge to newlybroached problems. Cambridge lies in an attitudeof magnificent repose, and shaking lazy ears stares ather elder sister, and asks what it is all about. . .There is nothing, says Cambridge, in that book whichwe liave not all of us been through already. Doubts,denials, destructions—we have faced them all, andare tired of them. But we have faced them in I. rm \iAKkH I ri.\< h EPILOGUE 323 silence, hoping to find a positive solution. It isthe positive solution, the construction of habitablemansions out of materials old as well as new thatCambridge keeps steadily in view, and beyond thevoices that drowned the first exposition of Darwinscreed it has sought and obtained peace. In no regionhas the measured progress been more visible than inthe Cambridge school of Theology. For the evidenceof the acceptance of the Darwinian faith I wouldnot turn only to its first and warm adherents, Mauriceand Kingsley. The seal of its incorporation in thearticles of the Christian religion was set by suchmodern Fathers as Westcott, Lightfoot and Benson. By rights Kingsley and his following should havea place in any account of the influences which havemoulded present Cambridge and dedicated it tonational uses. No man more typically than King
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