“At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is, that men cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.”

Preface to God and the Bible (1875)

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English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector… 1822–1888

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