ABSTRACT
For Lytton Strachey, November 1903 was a speculatively productive month. Addressing the Apostles in the middle of the month, four weeks following the publication of Principia Ethica and a week after reading 'The Historian of the Future' to the Sunday Essay Society, Strachey includes his brothers in his opening observation on the religious character of Apostolicism and on the conversion experience attendant upon election. Rosenbaum writes that Strachey's Edwardian essays frequently articulate a divorce of the outer from the inner. The christian [sic] religion itself positively almost justified. In the serene air of absolute existence, amid the spacious heights of complete being, far, far removed from the phenomenal and the inane, it is our pleasure and our privilege to wander, to linger, and to repose. Christians may be divided into two classes – those who are Christians, and those who are not; and it is just possible that he may, at the crack of doom, be reckoned among the latter.
