The Parallel Between Mill and Froude

Josef L. Altholz: The Warfare of Conscience with Theology

Footnote 14 of the author's "The Warfare of Conscience with Theology" in The Mind and Art of Victorian England, which the University of Minnesota Press published in 1976. It has been included in the Victorian Web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
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Mill, An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (4th ed., London, 1872), p. 129. The reference was specifically to Mansel's philosophy, discussed later in this essay. Mill's phrase seems to echo James Anthony Froude in 1849: "oh, I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence." Froude, The Nemesis of Faith (New York, 1879), p. 17.

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