Hannah More (and philanthropic sociability) [ Religion & Philanthropy / Politics & Society / Religious Belief ]
… conversation ( Thoughts 53) 11 – and reiterates the importance of ‘association,’ i.e. sociability: ‘ The Christian virtues derive their highest lustre from association: they have such a spirit of society that they are weak and imperfect … evening classes. As for her Sunday schools, ‘their modest agenda’ included ‘the inculcation of the socially desirable virtues of punctuality, cleanliness, and honesty.’ (Stott 105) More understood that the success of the scheme depended on … she both yearned for it and resented it. This appears in the Thoughts where she stressed that ‘action’ was ‘the life of virtue and the world [… ] the noblest theatre of action.’ ( Thoughts 70) This ambivalence, being ‘in the world’ but not …
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