Charles Kingsley Author:Charles Kingsley Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XVI. 1857- Aged 38. Winter At Home — Bright Summer Days — The Crowded Church—Charlotte Bronte—Speculation And Practice— "WORK BEYOND THE GRAV... more »E—PlETISTS AND 9v/l.ilS—TOM BROWN— "Go Hark"—Love Beyond The Grave—"Two Years Ago" —Indian Mutiny—" Christ Reigns "—Humour Divine— Temporary Failure Of Associations. " There is a mean curiosity, as of a child opening a forbidden door, or a. servant prying into his master's business ;—and a noble curiosity, questioning in the front of danger, the source of the great river beyond the sand,—the place of the great continents beyond the sea; a nobler curiosity still, which questions of the source of the River of Life, and of the space of the Continent of Heaven, things which the Angels desire to look into."— Ruskin. "I Have boundless faith in 'time and light.' I shall see what is the truth some day, and if I do not some cue else will, which is far more important . . . . " C. K. The year 1857 opened brightly on Charles Kingsley, for it found him, for the first winter for three years, in his own home at Eversley, with his wife and his three children, and in the fullest vigour of his manhood. "I am writing nothing now; but taking breath, and working in the parish—never better than I am at present; with many blessings, and, awful confession for mortal man, no sorrows! I sometimes think there must be terrible arrears of sorrow to be1857.] CALM BEFORE A STORM. 45 paid off by me—that I may be as other men are ! God help me in that day!...." He had finished his "Two Years Ago." The year was rich in letters and lectures and friends ; and he writes. to Mr. Peter Wood, then rector of Devizes, where he was to give a lecture on the Study of Natural History: " I look forward to seeing you with great delight, as a r...« less