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This 3 page paper discusses the struggle between doubt and faith apparent in Tennyson's poem, In Memorium. Examples and quotes cited from text. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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age. In the end, Tennyson states that between the two, faith can, does, and must win out over doubt. During Tennysons day and age, science was asking mankind to reshape
and rethink God and the existence of religion, its place in daily life. He struggles with the doubt that there is a God, given the scientific discoveries. If there is
no God, then what is mans true purpose, he seems to be saying. If man is merely here to procreate, then why all of the knowledge? Mankind could simply reproduce
without the intellect like so many animals do. He rejects this idea, and determines that man is: "Not only cunning casts in clay: Let science prove we are,
and then What matter science unto men, At least to me? I would not stay." (Tennyson 2560) Tennyson
sees that science is of benefit to mankind, but on the same token understands that nothing as rational and concrete can satisfy the human soul like religion can. This struggle
between science and faith is evident in the lines: "If eer when faith had falln asleep, I heard a voice believe no more And heard an ever-breaking shore
That tumbled in the Godless deep;"(Tennyson 2630). In order to come to his final conclusion he begins to imagine
what life would be like in a world without faith. "A warmth within the breast would melt/ The freezing reasons colder part, And like a man in wrath
the heart Stood up and answered I have felt"(Tennyson 2630) Emotions. Science
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