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Adams tells the parson, “Whoever therefore is void of Charity, I make no scruple of pronouncing that he is no Christian.”
Goodness was a preoccupation of the littérateurs of the eighteenth century no less than of the moralists. In an age in which worldly authority was largely unaccountable and tended to be corrupt, Fielding seems to have judged that temporal power...
Fielding used Adams' character to display true goodness. I don't know if I myself would consider him glaring, but I do see the man's innate goodness and simplicity as an example of what a clergyman should be. Fielding in no way portrays his...
