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The Life of Froude

CHAPTER IX
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The old thing is getting fast on its feet again.

The philosophers and critics have done for Protestantism as a positive, manly, and intellectually credible explanation of the world.

The old organism and old superstition steps into its ancient dominion- finding it swept and garnished." In San Domingo at sunrise Froude's meditations were far from cheerful: "The sense of natural beauty is nothing where man is degraded." So far Bishop Heber in a well-known couplet.
Froude proceeds: "The perception of beauty is the perception of something which is acting upon and elevating the intellectual nature.

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