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COMMENT: Podium - George Eliot's hatred for made-up religions From a talk given by the prize-winning biographer of George Eliot at the Royal Festival Hall, London

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20000306
Author:Kathryn Hughes

WHAT SHINES out in George Eliot's work, - and it is this quality that so many Victorians picked up on - is that while she believes that orthodox faith is not the foundation of morality, she absolutely understands its emotional power. At the time of writing Silas Marner, a few years after Adam Bede, she wrote to her friend Barbara Bodichon, many of whose friends were going over to Rome): "I have faith in the working-out of higher possibilities than the Catholic or any other church has presented and those who have strength to wait and endure, are bound to accept no formula which their whole ...

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