Charles Kingsley

Quotes

• “If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.”
• “So give me the political economist, the sanitary reformer, the engineer; and take your saints and virgins, relics and miracles. The spinning-jenny and the railroad, Cunard's liners and the electric telegraph, are to me, if not to you, signs that we are, on some points at least, in harmony with the universe; that there is a mighty spirit working among us, who cannot be your anarchic and destroying Devil, and therefore may be the Ordering and Creating God.”
• “Hold on yet awhile. More ways of killing a cat than choking her with cream.”
• “Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.”
• “Tell us not that the world is governed by universal law; the news is not comfortable, but simply horrible, unless you can tell us, or allow others to tell us, that there is a loving giver, and a just administrator of that law.”
• “Don't holla till you are out of the wood. This is a night for praying rather than boasting.”

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Key facts

Born

( 1819-06-12 ) 12 June 1819, Holne , Devon, England

Died

23 January 1875 (1875-01-23) (aged 55), Eversley , Hampshire, England

Occupation

Clergyman, historian, novelist

Nationality

English

Alma mater

King's College London Magdalene College, Cambridge

Period

19th century

Genre

Social Christianity

Literary movement

Christian socialism

Spouse

Frances Eliza ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1844 ) ​

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