Victorian Age

Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?

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Which of the following terms is defined as the application of a scientific attitude of mind toward studying the Bible, seen as a mere text of history and not an infallibly sacred document?

A. New Criticism
B. Critical Inquiry
C. Scientific Bibliology
D. Higher Criticism

What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?

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What did Thomas Carlyle mean by Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe ?

A. Britain’s preeminence as a global power will depend on mastery of foreign languages.
B. Even a foreign author is better than a homegrown scoundrel.
C. Abandon the introspection of the Romantics and turn to the higher moral purpose found in Goethe.
D. In a carefully veiled critique of the monarchy, Byron and Goethe stand in symbolically for Queen Victoria and Charles Darwin respectively.