Robert Elsmere is a Victorian novel by Mrs Humphry Ward about a young Anglican clergyman whose faith is shaken by modern thought. It follows his inner struggle between inherited belief and intellectual honesty, and his search for a life of service. Listen for its thoughtful portrait of conscience and religious doubt in nineteenth-century England.
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Opening of the book
ROBERT ELSMERE logo ROBERT ELSMERE BY MRS. HUMPHRY WARD AUTHOR OF 'MISS BRETHERTON' London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1888 All rights reserved Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. Dedicated to the Memory OF MY TWO FRIENDS, SEPARATED, IN MY THOUGHT OF THEM, BY MUCH DIVERSITY OF CIRCUMSTANCE AND OPINION; LINKED, IN MY FAITH ABOUT THEM, TO EACH OTHER,
AND TO ALL THE SHINING ONES OF THE PAST, BY THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE SERVICE OF MAN: THOMAS HILL GREEN (LATE PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD), Died 26th March 1882; AND LAURA OCTAVIA MARY LYTTELTON, Died Easter Eve 1886. CONTENTS BOOK I: Westmoreland 1 BOOK II: Surrey 149 BOOK III: The Squire 251 BOOK IV: Crisis 333 BOOK V: Rose 387 BOOK VI: New Openings 461 BOOK VII: Gain and Loss 549 NOTE The quotations given in the present book on pp. 58, 330, and 536, are either literally or substantially taken from a volume of Lay Sermons, called The Witness of God, by the late Professor T.
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