Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

by Sir Henry Jones

A: Prince Hohenstiel-Schwangau.

Thus, therefore, does the poet wed the divine strength with human weakness; and the principle of unity, thus conceived, gives him at once his moral strenuousness and that ever present foretaste of victory, which we may call his religious optimism.

Whether this principle receives adequate expression from the poet, we shall inquire in the next chapter. For on this depends its worth as a solution of the enigma of man's moral life.

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[CHAPTER VI.]

BROWNING'S TREATMENT OF THE PRINCIPLE OF LOVE.

"God! Thou art Love! I build my faith on that^A!"

A: Paracelsus

It may be well before going further to gather together the results so far reached.