Witchcraft and Magic of Africa

Abstract

‘’And now the chapel’s silver bell you hear, That summons you to all the pride of prayer….. To test, the cushion and soft dean invite, Who never mentions hell to ears polite’’. Pope, moral essays, epistle IV. The famous author of Wessward Ho (1855), and other immediately popular novels, Charles Kingsley tutor to the Prince of Wales (Edward VII),Regius professor of modern history at Cambridge, and Canon of Westminster, whose theological opinions-so far as they smacked of theology at all-it has been actually said ,although’ ’definitely Christo-centric, were moulded by German philosophical influence’’, a man of the broadest views who utterly rejected , for example , the doctrine of eternal punishment , which he regarded with horror and disgust, an eminently sane man, a healthy mind the impassioned and unfortunate opponent of Newman whom he completely misunderstood , a typical Victorian, an out-of –doors man a sportsman Charles Kingsley one Sunday morning mounting his pulpit at eversley parish church without any stereotyped preliminary text.