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Quotation from Essay on Burns by Thomas Carlyle
“His heart, indeed, is alive with a trembling adoration, but there is no temple in his understanding”
Essay on Burns, p. 80 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896))
Carlyle's judgment that Burns had religious feeling without a settled religion, in an age that confused faith with its New and Old Light forms.
Citation: "His heart, indeed, is alive with a trembling adoration, but there is no temple in his understanding" — Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Burns, p. 80 (Riverside ed. (Noyes, 1896)). (id essay-on-burns-q10)
