incl. ref.

Even in Bradley's own day there were dissenting voices; but the very ambiguity in Bradley's position extended his appeal. He regarded the tragic characters as embodiments of the qualities that will always command the respect and admiration of men, yet at the same time he seemed to find a formula that justified the scheme of things and absolved the cosmos from the charges that Huxley and others were bringing against it. In addition to the careful, learned and sympathetic analysis he gave to every author he discussed, there was the additional attraction, for those generations that were disturbed by the implications of biblical and scientific criticism, of finding in Bradley what seemed, in Arnold's words, a stay in an age of religious doubts and questionings.