“Whatever mode of thinking is necessarily confined to one or two points…” — Sydney Dobell

“Whatever mode of thinking is necessarily confined to one or two points of the mental compass may be true but is not Religious.”

Defining religious thought by breadth and compatibility with the whole mind · Unpublished notes, Poetry and Art

Faith
Truth

Sydney Dobell

About Sydney Dobell

5 April 1824–22 August 1874

Sydney Thompson Dobell was born on 5 April 1824 at Cranbrook in Kent, into a family whose circumstances placed him close to the commercial and dissenting middle-class culture of provincial England rather than to the aristocratic literary world. His father, Thomas Dobell, was a wine merchant, and the business of…

More by Sydney Dobell