ISBN10: 0198797656, ISBN13: 9780198797654, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Softcover Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent unused condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book. About the book >.>.> G. K. Chesterton, comparing Thomas Browne with Oliver Cromwell, remarks that, all things considered, it was 'highly probably that the religious ideals of Oliver Cromwell were infinitely inferior to those of Sir Thomas Browne'. He explains that whatever Cromwell's policy genius, 'his religious ideals practically united him with the meanest drummer in his army'. In contrast, 'we should laugh at the mere idea of Browne's archaeological emotions and mystical charity being shared by his butler or keeping his gardener awake at night'. Though Ches- terton strangely underestimates the numinous gardeners who occupy Browne's work, and though it is both unrecorded and unlikely that an early modern physician employed a butler, his point is the particular religious finery of an author who so steeped himself in the ineffable, who in an age of ardent religiosity, saw the paradox of the divine unknowability everywhere. Chesterton's comments occur in a review of Edward Dowden's Puritan and Anglican, who, in speaking
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Oxford University Press 2018 First Paperback Good [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ] [ Edition: First ] Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub Date: 4/1/2018 Binding: Paperback Pages: 1018.