Charles Kingsley
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Kingsley · a Kingsley
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Charles Kingsley, author of Alton Locke, cited among writers whose works reflected the changed climate of opinion after 1848.
It is no accident that Carlyle’s Latter Day Pamphlets (1849-1850), filled with denunciations of laissez faire, the Tracts on Christian Socialism (1850), which turned men’s hearts towards the duties of Christians as the members of society, Kingsley’s Alton Locke (1850), which to many contemporaries seemed to preach rank socialism, Mrs.
Charles Kingsley wrote to Mill that the perusal of his Liberty “affected me in making me a clearer-headed, braver-minded man on the spot.
The Genius of the Common Law
Writer (Charles Kingsley) associated with enthusiastic championing of the Anglo-Saxon/Teutonic ideal.
It is not our business either to support or to contravene the Anglo-Saxon zeal of a Kemble, a Kingsley or a Freeman, when we can find everything we need for our particular purpose without going outside the text of Tacitus and the judicial caution of Gibbon’s comment thereon.