Dr Peter Nelson reminds us of some home truths which need to be faced
The French historian, Elie Halévy, wrote the following.
‘During the 19th century, Evangelical religion was the moral cement of English society. It was the influence of the Evangelicals which invested the British aristocracy with an almost stoic [austere] dignity, restrained the plutocrats who had newly risen from the masses from vulgar ostentation and debauchery, and placed over the proletariat a select body of workmen enamoured of virtue and capable of self-restraint.’ It was a force in the land back then. It is not so today.
