Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher, by Henry Jones This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher Author: Henry Jones Release Date: September 30, 2004 [eBook #13561] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BROWNING AS A PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS TEACHER*** E-text prepared by Jonathan Ingram, Leonard Johnson, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team ii Robert Browning ROBERT BROWNING iii BROWNING AS A PHILOSOPHICAL AND RELIGIOUS TEACHER BY HENRY JONES PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW iv v THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIENDS MISS HARRIET MACARTHUR AND MISS JANE MACARTHUR. vi vii PREFACE. The purpose of this book is to deal with Browning, not simply as a poet, but rather as the exponent of a system of ideas on moral and religious subjects, which may fairly be called a philosophy. I am conscious that it is a wrong to a poet to neglect, or even to subordinate, the artistic aspect of his work. At least, it would be a wrong, if our final judgment on his poetry were to be determined on such a method.