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A Crystal Age
(1887)
A Mystical Utopian Novel.
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Hudson grew up on the frontier between Catholicism and Protestantism as he describes in Far Away and Long Ago. Emotional devastation combined with physical collapse when he read The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin while recovering from rheumatic fever. Currents of thought from that time may have combined when he wrote A Crystal Age. The unity of life is evoked when one of the characters rejects prayer to our Father in heaven because dumb beasts are incapable of making such petitions--so much for human souls being created separate from the natural order! On the other hand, animals have been killing each other relentlessly for millions of years, and this tragic vision could provide a motive for rejecting the theory of evolution in favor of traditional belief.--Submitted by Robert T.
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