Note 7 to Chapter 6 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
See Bernard J. Paris, "George Eliot's Religion of Humanity," Journal of English Literary History, 29 (1962), 418-43; rpt. George Eliot: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed. George R. Creeger (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1970), pp. 11-36.
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