Certain Movements in England and America which Influenced the Transition from the Ideals of Personal Righteousness of the Seventeenth Century to the Modern Ideals of Social Service

A Disertation Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature in Candidacy for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

CHAPTER IX THE EVANGELICAL MOVEMENT AND PARLIAMENTARY SOCIAL
REFORM In the religious decline of the reigns of George I and II the old Puritan
emphasis upon doctrinal belief had fallen into disuse . With it , the sterner virtues
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