Jack Lindsay by Anne Cranny-Francis

Author:Anne Cranny-Francis
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031396465
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland

To this he adds the influence of Goethe’s belief in the organic relationship between human beings and nature, as well as his view of science as united with art in a ‘fundamental principle of becoming, change, progress’ (p. 28). This is the Romanticism of social responsibility and fellowship, which places Goethe in a trajectory from Bruno and Spinoza to Hegel and Marx, whom Lindsay identifies as moving away from otherworldly idealist belief systems such as religion to a grounded engagement with the world, with ‘human society and its living relationship to nature’ (p. 28).

Meredith left the Moravian school with a set of values that was the opposite of the commercial environment in which he was raised and that governed the social life of the port city and his own family: ‘Portsmouth had deified the class-values of the Victorian middle-class … Neuwied set out a totally opposed system of values, in which the world’s criteria of money and power had no meaning and all that mattered was the individual’s intrinsic qualities, his readiness to work for the brotherhood of man’ (p. 29). Lindsay notes that this constituted the internal (moral and ethical) conflict that Meredith would work to understand and resolve throughout the rest of his life.

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