Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol. 20 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Vol. 20 "Victorian" is now commonly used as a depreciatory epithet, and yet we shall search the history of the last thousand years in vain for a period of more important social, political, and industrial changes than those carried on in the Victorian Era. The changes in the spiritual sphere were no less significant. Professor Henry Sidgwick, a singularly acute and subtle observer, writing to Tennyson's son for the Biography published in 1897, said of the sixties: - During these years we were absorbed in struggling for freedom of thought in the trammels of a historical religion: and perhaps what we sympathise with most in "In Memoriam" at this time, apart from the personal feeling, was the defence of "honest doubt, " the reconciliation of knowledge and faith in the introductory poem, and the hopeful trumpet-ring of the lines on the New Year - Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace, and generally the forward movement of the thought. Well, the years pass, the struggle with what Carlyle used to call "Hebrew old clothes" is over, Freedom is won, and what does Freedom bring us to? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.