Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ose vast learning and recognised positiongave to the associated friends at once a position and a intellectual origin of the party is not ditiicult to trace-It arose partly from the long and unbroken line of traditionalteaching which passed back, through the great divines of theCaroline age, behind the Reformation, to the accepted theologyof the undivided Western Church. This was quickened intonew li
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . ose vast learning and recognised positiongave to the associated friends at once a position and a intellectual origin of the party is not ditiicult to trace-It arose partly from the long and unbroken line of traditionalteaching which passed back, through the great divines of theCaroline age, behind the Reformation, to the accepted theologyof the undivided Western Church. This was quickened intonew life by the renewed interest in the past evoked by thegenius of Walter Scott, and fostered by the playful satire of ? Life of Piisey, i., p. 271. TEE CHURCH. 189 1846] Thomas Love Peacock. Medieval life and art were seen to bonot the rude offspring of a dark age, but to teem with rontanreand generous enthusiasm. The past was painted as in manyways more simple, more generous, more beautiful, and moreChristian, than the present. A second influence, in its way noless powerful, was the new philosoplry of Coleridge and his was a great force in making men dissatisfied with tlie. ihoto: Walker d* XEWJIAX, BY MISS Portrait Gallery.) superficiality so common a hundred years ago in religion as inother matters; and in this, if in no other way, he prepared theEnglish mind to listen to the (Oxford teachers. Historically it will be seen that the Oxford Movement, likeall other similar movements in the past, brought into specialprominence a doctrine which the age had neglected. TlieOxford teachers were filled with a deep feeling of the importanceand the wide consequence of the Christian doctrine of the Holy •? Life of Pusey, i., p. 25i. 190 THE NEW SPIRIT AXD THE XEW PATHS. [1832 Catholic Church. It was this that hnked theiu to the greatdivines of the Enghsh Church. It was this which gave theextraordinary motive force to the movement now
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