...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, and...

...transcending the ethical—that Kierkegaard considered crucial to Christianity. "There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questionable," Arnold wrote. "More and more mankind will discover that we have to turn to poetry to interpret life...

...opening of Dickens's Hard Times (1854) to the opening of Matthew Arnold's "The Study of Poetry" (1880): "Our religion has materialized itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached itself and its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it" (1860-77, 9:161). Powell returns...

...As he later famously declared in his preamble to "The Study of Poetry" (1880), "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...

...the English Victorian age which Matthew Arnold famously deprecated in 1880—"There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which...received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve" 36 —was not a characteristic of contemporary Russia. On the contrary, writes Timothy Ware, in his...

...expressiveness. Matthew Arnold articulated a broad consensus when he observed, "There is not a creed which is not shaken, not an accredited dogma which is not shown to be questioned, not a received tradition which does not threaten to dissolve." With its ubiquity and its...

...this shift from faith to poesis in a famous paragraph first published in 1879: 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...

...terms. As he examined the traditional dogmas of his people, he was driven to say "there is not a creed which is not shaken; not an accredited dogma which...its emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it."8 The "new knowledge" toward which both Comenius and Locke had been looking, had done its work....

...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, and...

...facts, the more they dissolve and dissipate in thin air. Like positivism, 'our religion has materialised itself in the fact, in the supposed fact; it has attached...emotion to the fact, and now the fact is failing it' (306). Whereas religion is betrayed by its empirical faith in fact, poetry is saved by its alignment...