GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, March? 1846](1)
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, March? 1846](1)
Title
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, March? 1846](1)
Sender
George Eliot
Recipient
Sara Sophia Hennell
Date(s)
- 1846-03
Place
[FOLESHILL]
Letter Content
GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, March? 1846](1)
MS: Yale. Published: Cross, I, 136-137.
My dear Sara,
As Mr. Bray tells me that you were disappointed not to have any new M.S., I send you to-day the conclusion of the chapter you are reading, and unless you find anything of importance to be rectified, you need not return this to me, but may forward the whole to the Printer as soon as you have read it.
I am not altogether satisfied with the use of the word Sacrament as applied specifically to the Abendmahl. It seems like a vulgarism to say, the Sacrament, for one thing, and for another, it does not seem aboriginal enough in the life of Jesus: but I know of no other word that can be substituted. 603 I have altered passover to paschal meal, but to pascha is used in the New Testament of the eating of the lamb, par excellence. You remember in the title of the first 'a7 in the Schluss which I had been so careless as to omit, the expression is "Nothwendiger Uebergang der Kritik in das Dogma." Now Dogmatism will not do, as that would represent Dogmatismus. Dogmatik is the idea I believe
I have had a miserable week of headache, but am better now, and ready for work, to which I must go.
Thine lovingly,
Pollian.
MS: Yale. Published: Cross, I, 136-137.
My dear Sara,
As Mr. Bray tells me that you were disappointed not to have any new M.S., I send you to-day the conclusion of the chapter you are reading, and unless you find anything of importance to be rectified, you need not return this to me, but may forward the whole to the Printer as soon as you have read it.
I am not altogether satisfied with the use of the word Sacrament as applied specifically to the Abendmahl. It seems like a vulgarism to say, the Sacrament, for one thing, and for another, it does not seem aboriginal enough in the life of Jesus: but I know of no other word that can be substituted. 603 I have altered passover to paschal meal, but to pascha is used in the New Testament of the eating of the lamb, par excellence. You remember in the title of the first 'a7 in the Schluss which I had been so careless as to omit, the expression is "Nothwendiger Uebergang der Kritik in das Dogma." Now Dogmatism will not do, as that would represent Dogmatismus. Dogmatik is the idea I believe
I have had a miserable week of headache, but am better now, and ready for work, to which I must go.
Thine lovingly,
Pollian.
Signature
Pollian.
Citation
George Eliot, GE to Sara Sophia Hennell, [Foleshill, March? 1846](1), Complete George Eliot Letters(2026), George Eliot Archive, edited by Beverley Park Rilett. https://GeorgeEliotArchive.org, Accessed September 7, 2026. https://georgeeliotarchive.org/items/show/93841