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In “God’s Funeral”, A.N. Wilson asserts the nineteenth century’s uncertainty over the literal truth of the Bible led to symptoms of disturbance and a ‘deep sense (personal, political, social) of dissolution’(11). Many Victorians saw "The Death of God” as a symptom of sickness of society: Western materialism and scientific rationalism had led to a society which had lost, not only a sense of the sublime, but its moral cohesion and unity. It had become, in a sense, the Devil’s playground…
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