While this unsettlement is to be deplored when it leads, as it does in so many cases, to the shipwreck of faith and even of morals, there is yet a certain exhilaration in living in a critical age.
Preface A deep unsettlement of belief is characteristic of our age.
It was many a long year since that great unsettlement had come to him when things had gone wrong with his first hopes, and he could not have the girl he wanted.
She carried a sense of unrest and unsettlement abroad with her, the uncomfortable feeling of a crisis in the air, and afterwards, in the slow weeks at Applehurst, her chief feeling was of longing for the deed to be done.
And throughout all of the unsettlement and conflict which the past half-century has brought in the Austro-Hungarian world the constitution of kingdom and empire alike has stood firm against every shock.
There followed in Hungary an epoch of political unsettlement during the course of which ministries changed frequently, finances fell into disorder, and legislation was scant and haphazard.
If poetry ever exercises a healing and reconciling influence on life, the deep and tranquil charm of Virgil may prove some antidote to the excitement, the restlessness, the unsettlement of opinion in the present day.
The religious unsettlement of the age assumed in them a positive form.
But I did more now; I told him my great unsettlement of mind on the question of the Churches.
I did so, for the moment was urgent; there was great unsettlement of mind among us, in consequence of those same events which had unsettled me.
Now in what I shall say, I am not going to speak in favour of my second thoughts in comparison of my first, but against such scepticism and unsettlement about truth and falsehood generally, the idea of which is very painful.
Up to January, 1842, I had not disclosed my state of unsettlement to more than three persons, as has been mentioned above, and as is repeated in the course of the letters which I am now about to give to the reader.
One, which came from above, from the highest leading authority in the movement, was the unsettlementof Mr. Newman's mind.
This, as he himself reminds us, was no new thing to his mind when the unsettlement of 1839 began.
But it was felt that, except by a dangerous unsettlement of all legal process, and by destroying all public confidence, no universal cancelling of voluntary and legal transactions could take place.
The home markets were interfered with by foreign goods imported during the recent years of unsettlement in exaggerated quantities.
Up to January, 1842, I had not disclosed my state of unsettlement to more than three persons, as has been mentioned above, and is repeated in the letters which I am now about to give to the reader.
There has thus beenunsettlement of a most profound character, and it is unsettlement upon a really first-class issue.
As men have been known to take to their beds at hearing the scientific names of illnesses which hitherto they had patiently endured, so minds are sometimes overwhelmed by an unsettlement of faith that takes the name of philosophic doubt.
Biography reveals how many of the great believers have passed through this youthful period of rebellion against accepted tradition and have suffered serious religious unsettlement in the process.
This situation was the occasion of our first unsettlement of faith: we discovered the fallibility of our parents.
The months ofunsettlement before the conversion was made were full of grief to Miss Nightingale.
Here therefore there is a great unsettlement of popular ideas, and no little energy has been expended in fitting men's minds to the new conditions.
It is commonly objected that criticisms of the Bible are a wanton unsettlement of the faith of simple folk.
The man will admit that he has no liking for the taste of drink; but declares that he is in a certain state of unsettlement which can only be overcome by the use of liquor.
A temporary calm is induced, only to be followed by a more intense irritation or unsettlement afterwards, and thus a circle of cause and effect is at once described.
