Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) BROWNING AND DOGMA LONDON: GEORGE BELL AND SONS PORTUGAL ST. LINCOLN'S INN, W.C. CAMBRIDGE: DEIGHTON, BELL & CO. NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO. BOMBAY: A. H. WHEELER & CO. BROWNING AND DOGMA SEVEN LECTURES ON BROWNING'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS DOGMATIC RELIGION BY ETHEL M. NAISH (FORMERLY SCHOLAR OF NEWNHAM COLLEGE, CAMB. HIST. TRIPOS) LONDON GEORGE BELL AND SONS 1906 CONTENTS PAGE LECTURE I INTRODUCTORY, AND CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS 1 LECTURE II CLEON 27 LECTURE III BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY 61 LECTURE IV CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY (i) 93 LECTURE V CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY (ii) 123 LECTURE VI CHRISTMAS EVE AND EASTER DAY (iii) 147 LECTURE VII LA SAISIAZ 179 SYNOPSIS LECTURE I Sources of Browning's influence as a teacher. Connection between the five poems of the Course. _Caliban upon Setebos_--Origin of--Criticisms. Characteristics of Caliban. Cf. Caliban of Shakespeare. Analysis of Poem. (i) Introductory (ll. 1-23). (ii) Conception of Setebos. (_a_) Place of abode (ll. 24-25). (_b_) Creator of things animate and inanimate (ll. 26-55). (_c_) Motives of Creation: self-gratification or wantonness (ll. 55-84, 170-199). (_d_) Answer to prayers addressed by his creatures uncertain because result of caprice (ll. 85-97). (_e_) Main characteristic--Power, irresponsible and capricious (ll. 98-126, 200-240). (iii) "The Quiet" and Caliban's estimate of evil (ll. 127-141, 246-249). Other lines of thought relating to: _A._ Doctrine of Sacrifice. _B._ A Future Life. _C._ Indirect suggestion of necessity of an Incarnation of the Deity arising from negative conditions ascribed to "the Quiet." LECTURE II CLEON _Cleon._ Cf. _Caliban_: (i) Dramatic change; (ii) point of contact. Greek conception of life--Influences affecting Cleon. Analysis of Poem. I. Introductory and descriptive (ll. 1-42). II. Varied attainments of Cleon indicative of progress of race through development of _complexity_ of nature (ll. 43-157). Includes (ll. 115-126) Cleon's conception of an Incarnation. III. Answer to question of Protus, Is death the end to the man of thought as well as to the man of action? (ll. 158-323.) Increase of happiness not necessarily accompaniment of fuller knowledge (ll. 181-272).