"Edward Carpenter was the greatest spiritual inspiration of our lives. His Towards Democracy was our Bible...One admired and loved him at once."
— Edward Carpenter

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Fenner Brockway, "A Memory of Edward Carpenter", New Leader, 5 July 1929, (p.6). Quoted in , Tony Brown, ‎Thomas N. Corns, Edward Carpenter and Late Victorian Radicalism Taylor & Francis 2013; also in Harris, Kirsten, Walt Whitman and British socialism: The Love of Comrades. Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd 2016.