This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...hero's neck to plunge him as deep as possible in oblivion. In looking back on the eminent men of last generation, we have seen one or two lives of the former stamp, many more of the latter. Let us indulge the hope that he who writes of Keble will take for his model the one or two nearly faultless biographies we possess ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...hero's neck to plunge him as deep as possible in oblivion. In looking back on the eminent men of last generation, we have seen one or two lives of the former stamp, many more of the latter. Let us indulge the hope that he who writes of Keble will take for his model the one or two nearly faultless biographies we possess, and above all that he will condense his work within such limits as will commend it not only to partial friends, but also to all thoughtful readers. By his character and influence Keble did more than perhaps any other man to bring about the most wide-spread quickening of religious life which has taken place within the English Church since the Eeformation. To him, and the party to which his very name was a tower of strength, England owes two great services. First, they, and they pre-eminently, have turned, and are still turning, a resolute front against the rationalizing spirit, which would pare down revelation to the measure of the human understanding--cut away its foundation in the supernatural, and virtually reduce it to a moral system encased perhaps in a few historic facts. Secondly, they have introduced into the English Church a higher order of character, and taught it, we might almost say, new virtues. They have diffused widely through the clergy the contagion of their own zeal and resoluteness, their selfdevotion and Christian chivalry. These are high services to have rendered to any country in any age. But with these acknowledgments two regrets must mingle: one, that with their defence of the faith they should have mixed up positions which are untenahle, identifying with the simple faith doctrines which are no part of it, but rather alien accretions gathered by the Church in its progress down the ages. The result of this intermingling...
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