...destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is every thing; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the...

...destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a treed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the jg££, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the factj and...

...superiority of Confucianism over Christianity. Discussing poetry, Matthew Arnold said: "There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion (Christianity) has materialized itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; and it has attached its emotion...

...destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...failing it. But for poetry the idea is everything. — MATTHEW ARNOLD HABITS that have endured for many thousands of years are not easy to throw off —...

...orthodoxy of German biblical criticism and of developments in geology and biology. "There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve," wrote Arnold in "The Study of Poetry." Protestantism, which based itself on the Bible, was more vulnerable...

...fiction became the romantic realization of myth, religion indeed a form 9f poetry. As Arnold wrote, 'Our religion has materialized itself in the fact,...emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. . . The strongest part of our religion today is.in its unconscious poetry.'51 This famous statement,...

...destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...Our religion has materialized itself in the fact, and in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it....

...WJ Courthope cited approvingly the agnostic neo-romanticism of Matthew Arnold. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact, and...

...cit., prefatory self-quotation: "Our religion has materialized itself in the . . . supposed fact . . . has attached its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it. But for poetry the idea is the fact. . . . Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea. The strongest part of our religion today is...

...destinies, our race, as time goes on, will find an ever surer and surer stay. There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...which does not threaten to dissolve. Our religion has materialised itself in the fact — in the supposed fact; it has attached its emotion to the fact,...