Identificatie
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HOUG/37/97
Titel
Letter from Richard Monckton Milnes to Frederick Oldfield Ward
Datum(s)
- 2 Aug. [1840s?] (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Stuk
Omvang en medium
2 ff.
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[26] Pall Mall. - There is a great philosophical gulf between them: 'I believe in the Mystery of Evil as a Fact, & you do not'; Man is capricious towards lesser beings, but may himself be controlled by a superior will, known to the ancients as Fate and now called Providence; pagan and Christian notions of good and evil; Milnes saved from despair by belief in human progress, despite remnants of savegary; 'I & you are wheels which have our own function in the machine - let us go on regularly, & leave the rest to [God]'.