“So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.”

Yeast: A Problem http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10364/10364-h/10364-h.htm (1848), ch. 5.

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English clergyman, historian and novelist 1819–1875

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