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"_Religious ideas and religious emotions, under the influence of the Puritan habit of mind, seek to realise themselves, not in art, but, without any intervening medium, in character, in conduct, in life. It is thus that the gulf between sense and spirit is bridged; not in marble or in colour is the invisible made visible, but in action public and private--‘ye are the temples of the Holy Ghost." / --Professor E. Dowden.
It was something of a relief to Gabriel to see the well-known spires and towers of Oxford, but he had lived through so much since his undergraduate days that he felt like a returned ghost--aloof from all his past interests, alone in a crowd, remorselessly stared at and criticised by the inhabitants.