Victorian Doubt In God

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Joshua G

 

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August 30, 2012

 

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I finally chose In Memoriam I read the background on it and it interested me. In Memoriam is very long so I’m only going to discuss some it. But I want to begin by discussing the Victorian Doubt in God. In “ Characteristics”, Carlyle discusses the same doubt in God that Tennyson feels in In Memoriam, a doubt that characteristically reflects religion in England under the reign of Queen Victoria...
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Carlyle doubts man’s beliefs because he understands man’s insignificance in the realm of things and thus wonders how any of man’s answers to any questions of the world could be right. He doubts many things especially God. To Carlyle, God did not represent an answer to the problems of the world: We, the whole species of Mankind, and our whole existence and history, are but a floating speck in the illimitable ocean of the All; yet in that ocean; indissoluble portion thereof; partaking of its infinite tendencies: borne this way and that by its deep swelling tides, and grand ocean currents; of which what faintest chance is there that we should ever exhaust the significance, ascertain the goings and comings? A region of Doubt, therefore, lovers forever in the background: in action alone can we have certainty...
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