Charles Kingsley Biography

Occup.Clergyman
FromEngland
BornJune 12, 1819
Holne, Devon, England
DiedJanuary 23, 1875
Eversley, Hampshire, England
Aged55 years
Charles Kingsley was a British writer. In 1848 he made his debut with the unique Yeast, a trouble.

Kingsley was in 1842, a priest and also later on Dean of Chester and also Westminster, and in 1860 ended up being professor of modern-day history at Cambridge University. He stood for the wide church of the Anglican Church. Uncle to the anthropologist Mary Kingsley.

Charles Kingsley was part of a group of Oxonians (in Oxford) that shared his rate of interest in German philosophy as well as science. The friends of the circuit - Friedrich Max Muller, James Anthony Froude, Matthew Arnold and CJ Christian von Bunsen - vurmade for the "Aryan", "Teutonic" as well as "Anglo-Saxon" heritage.

It is stated, also today amongst the Irish that the English hate racists and the Irish. "I really feel persecuted by the human primates I saw along the way by this awful nation", witch is composed by Kingsley after a journey to Ireland. "I do not believe it's our fault. I assume that not just are there even more of them than in the old days, yet also that they are happier, much better, eat and also live easily in our federal government than in the past. However to see white primates is awful, if they were black you would certainly not feel it so much, but their skin when it has been burned by the sunlight, is as white as ours." The Irish were Europe's natives. They scared the Kingsley since their skin shade did not match with his racial prejudices.

Our collection contains 20 quotes who is written / told by Charles, under the main topic Men.

Related authors: James Anthony Froude (Historian), Philo (Philosopher), Max Muller (Educator), Charles King (Politician), Matthew Arnold (Poet), Thomas Hughes (Lawyer), Lawrence Taylor (Athlete)

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20 Famous quotes by Charles Kingsley