ABSTRACT
Charles Gore's religious chaos' was at least in part a misnomer, since many other such rebels against conventional religion solved the problem in the same fashion as Aldington. The effect of a religious terror that is being pursued from similar motives in our own day has been described by an Englishman who spent a year at Moscow University. Although religious liberalisers were restrained by a fear of the political concomitants of their theology, their ideas obtained wide currency throughout the Protestant world in the course of the eighteenth century. The effects of the religious revival were most far-reaching in small and relatively isolated communities, where Evangelical Protestantism might come to pervade the whole atmosphere. The principle of self-development was the chief point in the attack on all religions of the prophets of pleasure, and in the attack on Evangelicalism of many religious reformers. A notable English prophet of self-development was Grant Allen.
