Gradually, however, a strong Evangelic spirit (as we should now speak) and a still stronger anti-Papal spirit entered into the middle sort of Englishmen, and added to that force, fibre, and substance which they have never wanted, an ideal warmth and fervour which they have almost always wanted.
Bagehot notes the emergence of a strong Evangelical and anti-Papal spirit among the English middle class.
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