Religion In The Victorian Era

Throughout the nineteenth century Victorian period, many Victorian cultures were very Christian. During this period, the formation of spirit of democracy began to arise. Many people sought to explain the relationship between faith and science. The discover of evolution was a magnificent tragedy in every Victorian culture. Also, many people’s life revolved deeply around the dead. The death of an individual was part of their families. So, the nineteenth Victorian century was revolved around the death of loved ones, reliving the cultural tension created by scientific theories, and the dramatic change made by industrialization. In this time period, death was a major part of each individual’s daily lives. Middle class Victorians die, and have

Many geologists tried to prove the existence of evolution because they believed humans were not associated with the biblical times, but associated with primates: strepsirrhines and haplorhines. The aesthetic philosophy of John Ruskin’s Stones of Venice, he tried to explain the works to relive the tension caused by the theories of evolution, and the changes caused by Industrialization. The scientific theory of evolution was a major concern to the Victorian Era because they based their lives around the belief of Christianity. Ruskin described how industrialization has dehumanized humans until they get off of work, and that our world is all about the money. “If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cogwheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them” (Ruskin 1346). They wanted their focus to be on the accomplishments of their work instead of what is going on outside of work. Individuals look at work as their only pleasure because the world revolves around money. According to Ruskin, “ It is not that men are ill fed, but they have no pleasure in the work by which they make their bread, and therefore look to wealth as the only means of pleasure” (1347). Industrialization has caused many changes throughout the nineteenth century; many people relied on the pleasure of gaining money by working. Technology has affected jobs; one individual rather than two or more could operate machinery in a factory, so many individuals lost their jobs. So, during this time, many realized that technology changed the outlook of man kind, and many Victorians began to see Darwin’s evolutionary theory as a true statement about themselves and their place in this dramatic