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Godliness Good Learning: Four Studies on a Victorian Ideal by David Newsome, Paperback Gently read. No markings. No creases. Pages are tanning. Synopsis: Explores the changing attitudes which underlay Victorian values, as they were articulated in the public schools, in the ancient universities, and in the Church of England itself. The author begins with an account of early-Victorian piety and devotion, which owed so much tot he influence of Thomas Arnold. His second study portrays James Prince Lee, a giant among Victorian headmaster-bishops, and he then narrates the moving story of the life and death of Martin White Benson, a gifted Winchester schoolboy, who exemplified the ideals which Arnold and Lee sought to inculcate. In his final chapter, he explains how the more strident creed of muscular Christianity superseded godliness and good learning at the close of the 19th century. The result is a masterly evocation of an age so close to our own, yet at the same time so distant. Thank you for shopping with us!