Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

by Sir Henry Jones

"God, perchance,

Grants each new man, by some as new a mode,

Inter-communication with Himself

Wreaking on finiteness infinitude^B."

B: Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau.

And while man's moral endeavour is thus recognized as the activity of God within him, it is also implied that the divine being can be known only as revealed, and incarnated, if one may so say, in a perfect human character. It was a permanent conviction of Browning, that

"the acknowledgment of God in Christ

Accepted by thy reason, solves for thee

All questions in the earth and out of it."