Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) saw the abyss as clearly as anyone has. He knew that meaning was fading from reality as the modern age disenchanted and demythologized the world. “Physician of the iron age, ...
Matthew Arnold’s overview of the receding tide of Dover Beach and the metaphor it offers for the retreat of faith, comes from the Victorian era, but without the optimism often attached to that period.
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