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which had led the van in the attack on the Church, has visibly 

 changed, and has thrown aside the unfairness and Positivist provin- 

 cialism, which was its note ten years ago. Thus, again, instead of 

 covertly sneering at the marvels of the Bible and Christianity, as 

 Grote and Buckle loved to do, Mr. Green finds no difficulty, in his "His- 

 tory," in fully acknowledging all that the Church had done for the 

 civilization of England. But this does not close his eyes to the facts 

 of the case, or prevent his recognizing, in the Bible literature, a het- 

 erogeneous collection of "legends and annals, war-song and psalm, 

 state-rolls and biographies, etc." It should be remembered that Mr. 

 Green's history was intended for the student ; that it was written by 

 a clergyman, and one who had been an earnest worker in the purlieus 

 of eastern London ; and, lastly, that this free tone in regard to matters 

 of religion, a tone that recognized with equal impartiality Protestant 

 and Catholic, has never been objected to as unfitting the book for gen- 

 eral use. Thus we may say that history has been emancipated. The 

 revision testifies to the emancipation of scholarship. 



Another important result of the battle of opinion was the perfect 

 freedom with which different writers now expressed themselves, as 

 well as in the toleration that they mutually extended to one another. 

 As it were to mark this era, a new review was started in March, 1877, 

 as a perfectly free medium for all shades of honest opinion. A poem 

 was contributed by the poet-laureate as a preface, which we quote as 

 distinctive of the " Nineteenth Century " : 



"Those that of late had fleeted far and fast 

 To touch all shores, now leaving to the skill 

 Of others their old craft seaworthy still, 

 Have chartered this ; where, mindful of the past, 

 Our true co-mates regather round the mast, 

 Of diverse tongue, but with a common will 

 Here, in this roaring moon of daffodil 

 And crocus, to put forth and brave the blast; 

 For some, descending from the sacred peak 

 Of hoar, high-templed Faith, have leagued again 

 Their lot with ours to rove the world about ; 

 And some are wilder comrades, sworn to seek 

 If any golden harbor be for men 

 In seas of Death and sunless gulfs of Doubt." 



But on two sides something more is observable. Art and science 

 not only claim to be completely free from the power of Church dicta- 

 tion ; they have set up, so to speak, an opposition Church. Science 

 was emancipated in 1874, it has since turned its attention to the con- 

 struction of a scientific morality. The " Data of Ethics " appeared 

 in 1879, but long before this science had shown itself capable of ris- 

 ing to the enthusiasm of a religion, and we have to thank the author 

 of "The New Paul and Virginia " for laboriously collecting the utter- 



