<論文>孤高の作家サミュエル・バトラー(III) : ケンブリッジ大学時代

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In 1854 Butler left Shrewsbury and went into residence at St. John's College, Cambridge. For Butler, Cambridge was 'the first place where he had ever been consciously and continuously happy'. After he was free from the cramped companionship of Shrewsbury and the suffocating domestic life at Langar, he could enjoy his life in a framework of independence and freedom, which St. John's offered. Here is one episode. The St. John's Sims went about at night dropping tracts into the letterboxes of men they thought ripe for conversion, and Butler circulated a parody, which was very ironic and witty. Furthermore, he joined the boat club; he even coached and steered his college boat. After various activities, he went down to London and spent six months as an unpaid assistant to the Rev. Philip Perring, a former pupil of Dr Butler at Shrewsbury, and a curate at St. John's, Piccadelly. Butler took lodgings in Heddon Street, off Regent Street, and found himself in a new and quite unexpected world. There in London he found out that most of the boys in his class had never been baptized; far more shocking, baptism apparently had no measurable effect on their character or behaviour: those who had been baptised seemed no better than those who had not been. As a result, he began to be skeptical about Christianity and he refused to be ordained.
八代工業高等専門学校の論文
2003-03-01