This research offers with the interval in Hardy's existence whilst he was once contemplating a occupation within the Church. via studying files, determining priests, and learning their writings, together with sermons, the writer has reconstructed those an important years in Hardy's existence. The publication charts Hardy's deceptive distortions of his early non secular sympathies, chronicling his shut institutions with opposing extremes of trust, earlier than studying his eventual adoption of a apparently idiosyncratic agnosticism.
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