Evangelicals
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Religious party within the Church of England whose fervour is said to have made them champions of humanitarianism.
The same remark holds good of the Evangelicals, though happily their religious fervour made them the champions of humanitarianism.
they show at a glance that at the beginning of the nineteenth century Evangelicalism was among religious Englishmen supreme, and Evangelicalism, no less than Benthamism, meant as a social creed the advocacy of every form of humanity.
The Evangelicals were indeed churchmen, but since their strength did not lie in their churchmanship, it was impossible for them to form an ecclesiastical party such as has been the outcome of the High Church movement.