Man.....
Who trusted God was love indeed
And love Creation's final law
[color="DarkRed"]Tho' Nature, Red in Tooth and Claw
With ravine, shrieked against his creed.
- cantos 56, "In Memorium A.H.H." (1850)
Lord Alfred Tennyson's pre-Darwin attempts to reconcile the suffering of non-human animals in the presence of an unconditionally loving God. In the end he reaffirms his slavish, philosemitic devotion to abrahamic sky-gods, who rule the heavens over Whitelandia.
How damaged was this tortured fuck and european theism by 1850?