biblism

Updated: April 30, 2025

Moody and Sankey, one must be familiar with English manners, one must know the mind-deadening influence of a narrow Biblism, one must have experienced the sense of acute ennui, which the aspect and the frequentation of this great division of English society produce in others, the want of elasticity and the chronic ennui which characterize this class itself, petrified in a narrow Protestantism and in a perpetual reading of the Bible."

Matthew Arnold - Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold

You know the French; a little more Biblism, one may take leave to say, would do them no harm. But an audience like this and here, as I said, is the advantage of an audience like this will have no difficulty in admitting the amount of truth which there is in the Frenchman's picture.

Matthew Arnold - Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold