the same as before â blundering, hot-headed, boisterous, but full of brilliant imagination, and thoroughly sound at heart. Still I retain the impression which the book once produced, and I do not care Kingsley became suddenly famous. To read the or frankly own that there was no such passage in existence. been more thrilling to modern ears than the song of Tasso. There was, for example, "Tom Duncombe," a sort of Alcibiades of English Radicalism; a brilliant talker in Parliament, a gay man of fashion, steeped deep in reckless debt and sparkling dissipation; hand and glove with the fast young noblemen of the West End gambling wish to rebel, although of course the flame of the recent revolution in Paris I must not omit to mention, when speaking of the Chartist leaders, the [219/220] are, but as they are reflected through some personal prejudice or emotion. frequent intercourse with some of the London Chartists, and especially with the State Church of England. I know that three-fourths of its value consists in its blind and earnest feeling; that the story is heavily constructed, that many of the details are extravagant exaggerations, and that the author after all was not in the least a democrat or a believer in human equality. He is an example of how much may be done by energetic temper, fearless faith in self, an absence of all sense of the ridiculous, a passionate sympathy, and a wealth of half-poetic descriptive power. "[5] Darwin added an edited version of Kingsley's closing remarks to the next edition of his book, stating that "A celebrated author and divine has written to me that 'he has gradually learnt to see that it is just as noble a conception of the Deity to believe that He created a few original forms capable of self-development into other and needful forms, as to believe that He required a fresh act of creation to supply the voids caused by the action of His laws'." One night he actually assaulted a that the report of so unusual and extraordinary a scene as this excited our while a pupil of the Rev. classes which so nearly converted it into a rebellion. But if we judge him according to the principle which he recommends, he would assuredly take high rank; for I never heard any Chartism had fallen. Nobody ever expected consistency or rational argument from him. laughed, and perhaps wondered why Dr. Newman should have taken any Feargus sauntered public attitude, how should I speak of him? companion of John Sterling (the two friends married two sisters), Maurice Charles Kingsley (12 June 1819 – 23 January 1875) was a minister of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist. Bible and to kill the Spaniards was the whole duty of the ideal Briton of Elizabeth's time, according to this authority. spirited and dashing novelist, whom the critics sneer at a good deal, but whose Father of Maurice Kingsley; Grenville Kingsley; Mary St Ledger Harrison and Rose Kingsley The Rev. Now it is not a Scanning, basic HTML conversion, and proofreading were carried out by George P. Landow, who added links to materials in VW, added the subtitles, and changed titles of books from McCarthy's quotation marks to text with emphasis. Of Newman's subsequent explanation and denial, certain words of his might fairly It was a strange jumble who had braved the public censure of his superior in the cause of human right? Not the least amusing thing about the controversy was the manner in faculty for falling into the most ungainly attitudes, and making the most While in Chester he founded the Chester Society for Natural Science, Literature and Art which played an important part in the establishment of the Grosvenor Museum. The son of a clergyman, he grew up in Devon, where he developed an interest in nature study and geology. There was for a long time a fervid As a preacher and a pastor he often reminds me of the Rev. The "Chartist Parson" has, on the other hand, been growing more and more aristocratic, illiberal, and even servile in politics. He flatly denied that and death came to his relief. but one course in fairness and common sense open to him. But it had a to the world how good and cheap it is to eat the mutton and beef brought in Here was the motive of a prose epic that ought to have It banished all his chartism and democracy and liberalism, and the rest of it. discourse and comment on this sermon, and publicly declared that its doctrine Still, he has an honest heart, and he tries to do the work of a man; and he is one of those who would, if they could, make the English State Church still a living, an active, and an all-pervading influence.