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Religion in recent art : expository lectures on Rossetti, Burne Jones, Watts, Holman Hunt and Wagner (1905)

Forsyth, Peter Taylor, 1848-1921 · London : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 216

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em all asthey pass by. And it is nothing for one reason,because, while they are keen enough to feel pain,and cry out under it, they have no experience ofa speechless curse, and spiritual agony is to themquite unknown. We are busy conquering natureand pushing trade. That is well. We are inter-ested… … HOLMAN HUNT 181 of distress and evil. But as an age we have lost thecare or power to realise mans spiritual curse, wehave lost the imagination for spiritual depths. Wehave divided our Christ; and, while we have kept Hishumane compassion and His helping hand, we haveceased to fathom His awful soul,…

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