Capitolo 12
conciseness.
In all of his/her sights and opinions he was strongly liberal. To Cambridge to
a first date he was one of the 83 members of the Senate that it sustained
the question to allow the grant of medical degrees without
asking for an expression of assent to the religious doctrines of the
Church of England. It is in 1868 he declined to sign a petition against
the abolition of religious declarations asked for admitted people
to the Friendships or proceeding to the degree of M.A. And he was opposite
to some kind of narrowness and the exclusiveness. When he was named
to the place of Astronomer Royal, he stipulated, that he should not be
asked to vote in some political election. But all of its sights were in the
liberal direction. He was a great reader of the theology and church
history, and as forms concerned of the adoration and the interpretation of
the Sacred writings, he treated them with the great respect, but from the point
of a layman's perspective from free thinker. In the Preface to his "Notes on the
First Sacred writings Israelite" that he says, "In respect to the general tone of
these notes, I want comment before I don't have anything say on the
subject of oral inspiration. With those that entertain that doctrine,
I cannot have in common anything. Neither I recognize, in the avowedly
you count historical, some other inspiration from which you/he/she can exempt them
the criticism of severest that would be applicable to so defined profane
accounts, written under the same general circumstances and in the
same countries." And his/her treatment of the subject in the shews of "Notes"
as completely him taken a rationalistic perspective of the whole question. Him
it also sided strongly with Colenso Vescovile in his/her criticism without fear of
the Pentateuch, although he dissented from some of his/her conclusions. But
he was soaked deeply of the spirit of religion and it reflected a lot
on him. His/her correspondence whole door the impression of the more anymore
genuine integrity and tall-mindedness, without a trace of
affectation. In any letter a shade to oscillate on it appears there