The Ethical Idealism of Matthew Arnold / / William Robbins.
The 1860’s and 1870’s in England were times of intense excitement in scientific and religious thought. On the one hand the work of Darwin, Huxley and others produced a new and sometimes shocking liberalism: on the other, the drift towards Rome (exemplified in the life of Cardinal Newman) led to an e...
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