'Yet I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs, / And the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the suns.' These lines from 'Locksley Hall' reflect:
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Correct answer: D. evolutionary faith
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Tennyson's 'Locksley Hall' (1842) expresses Victorian faith in progress through gradual development, 'evolutionary' optimism before Darwin.
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