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VII 



of things as they truly are — a vision greater than 

 that of their divided visions — such as one knows, 

 without attaining it oneself, must be attainable by 

 man. 



Charles Kingsley's deeply sympathetic and 

 devotional mind, kept always at close quarters 

 with men by his profession, became suffused with a 

 great love and interest in them as a mass. His 

 brother's life lay in pleasant places ; he was not 

 forced to contemplate poverty, sin, crime, and human 

 wretchedness : therefore he loved only individual 

 men ; for the mass of humanity he had not Charles's 

 intense love. That wider, intense love he gave to 

 the Ej'dgeist — whom Charles also loved. Charles 

 knew Nature and Nature's God enough to know 

 that human misery is not all Nature's blame, but 

 that much of it comes from ' man's inhumanity to 

 man,' — a ptomaine human nature breeds when 

 crowded. His tender love of man, and the responsi- 

 bility he had taken on himself when he enlisted as a 

 soldier of the Church, sent him down to fight evil in 

 the human arena. It was no fight against God's 

 laws of Nature, but a fight for them against diseased 

 conditions. How deeply he also loved and was 

 comforted by non-human nature he has shown in 

 those beautiful, perfectly balanced utterances : Town 

 Geology, Water Babies, Madam How and Lady Why, 

 and TJiree Fishers. 



I pray you do not let natural misty-mindedness 

 in me give you the idea that George Kingsley was 



