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> [ Perhaps the greatest lesson \[Huxley\] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-huxley-learned-from-reading-carlyle-was/)

Adrian Desmond

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## More by Adrian Desmond

> [ Perhaps the greatest lesson \[Huxley\] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/perhaps-the-greatest-lesson-huxley-learned-from-reading-carlyle-was/)

Adrian Desmond

> [Science was tearing through the 'fine-spun ecclesiastical cobwebs' to behold a new cosmos, in which our Earth is merely an 'eccentric speck' - a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/science-was-tearing-through-the-fine-spun-ecclesiastical-cobwebs-to/)

Adrian Desmond

> [ A man got up \[after one of Huxley's 'sermons'\] and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/a-man-got-up-after-one-of-huxley-s-sermons-and-said-they-had-never/)

Adrian Desmond

> [William Henry Flower the Anglican too praised evolution as a cleansing solvent, dissolving the dross which had 'encrusted' Christianity 'in the days of ignorance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/adrian-desmond/william-henry-flower-the-anglican-too-praised-evolution-as-a/)

Adrian Desmond

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