I am sorry to say I have a large experience in this question.

The mass of the English people have no genuine religious belief, but none the less they are Puritans in morality.

The same applies to the vastly greater part of those who even repudiate Christianity." "One must take account of the national hypocrisy," remarked the younger man, with an air of superiority, shaking his head as his habit was.
"It's a complicated matter.

The representative English bourgeois is a hypocrite in essence, but is perfectly serious in his judgment of the man next door; and the latter characteristic has more weight than the former in determining his life.

Puritanism has aided the material progress of England; but its effect on art! But for it, we should have a school of painters corresponding in greatness to the Elizabethan dramatists.