But Kingsley, though a disciple of Carlyle, was also a hard-working clergyman, who held that the masses could be regenerated by Christian Socialism.

Froude had no faith in Socialism, nor in Christianity as the Church understood it.

In this year, 1848, Emerson also came to Oxford, and dined with Clough at Oriel, where they thought him like Newman.
Froude was already an admirer of Emerson's essays, and laid his case before the American moralist.

Emerson gave him, as might have been expected, no practical advice, but recommended him to read the Vedas.

Nothing mattered much to Emerson, who took the opportunity to give a lecture in London on the Spiritual Unity of all Animated Beings.