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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 127
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Utopia is following on behind . ' But Ms Utopian views are as safe , and , in system For the onl he y of constantl rational social sense y maintains of that that that term we it can , is as onl rise * y conservative b into y ad a vancing hiher / as under they It is are our the hopeful gradual present .
development of a economy higher system , from causes already g in . operation , that he to deli him ghts possible to proclaim . How . No quietl sudden y slavery transiti and on serfdom of a permanent vanished out character of Europe seems !
was now Changes not in the as quite great process so and patient of as accomp gradual in his lishment may expectations be . accomp At Oxford ; lishe he brou d , if in g I ht the remember the future golden — ri m ght vision ay , he be
period air nearer the he to lig the was ht towers eye contented . He and could g that ilded then the fanes slow with of bviilder marvellous his Utopian Time rap architecture should idity thro build w . up on At into accord a later the
than structure ing to before his would wonted What arise fashion the , and arrangements . he But assi he gned was and to as method it confident even , of more life , as magnificent would ever that be in the proportions that glorious future
. par circumstance societ t , work y , he out was , var its far ying too own wise in details every to think ; age in part and of pre those country dicting details . . A The would great extended princi be determined ple action would of , b in y a
ente princi red ple into well for known mutual amongst good—was us all —that that he of confidentl mutual co y -operation prophesied . * ignedl * y * ultimate ' If a society end , ' mere he would physical continue well- , being * should , it would in its corporate not succeed capacity even in tak that e for , its It
the must moral also and adopt religious for its main feelings result of man the . cultivation Not only of because the social this affections is the hi , g and her hi end gher in itself relations , but , because will you onl obtain y throug that h this unity union of of action mind you with desire mind for , in mere their
physical well-being . ' " both The in w thei idely r differing religious results convictio arrived ns and thei by r Cla philosop rence and y o f Cy life ril ,
, though educated under the same influence , are thus commented upon by Thorndale : —
" * flow can any man think so ! ' is an exclamation I have ceased to make . Men the same broug studies ht up , at come the sam to conclusion e university s , diametricall reading the y sam opposite e books . , trained Cyril and by
friends Clarence as are men both of remarkable men of perfect ability sanity , and what of mind a complete , both were contrast esteemed do they by their present ! To Cyril it is the Past that has given us finallwhatever of truth is
worth the possessing ; he has no Future except that of Heaven y ; or if he has any terrestrial Church : surel Utop y ia a , dream it must of consist unanimity in the as universal wild as submission any that mortal to the one imag Catholic ination
has entertained . To Clarence there is a terrestrial Future continually brightening , so that it will approximate to what we conceive of Heaven ; and in that will future separate the pure themselves truths of more relig and ion more will unfold from the them additions selves more made and to more them , and b
the imaginations and passions of men . " y As will be seen from the extracts we have given' Thorndale '
, is a book evincing considerable power of thought long and persistently applied to the vast and important psychological problems
which torment or delight , according to the constitutional tendencies of the student . 66
Show me a healthy body , and I will show you a healthy mind , " is proved in the light of science and observation to embody a
profound truth . How far the spirit is moulded by the flesh , or how
far the flesh is moulded by the spirit , we have as yet no scientific
Notices Of Books. 127
NOTICES OF BOOKS . 127
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1858, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041858/page/55/
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