Mill, who was no disciple of art for art's sake, said that the radical poet will paint passionate love, "will show it at war with the forms and customs of society, nay even with its laws and religion, if the laws and tenets which regulate that branch of human relations are among those which have begun to be murmured against."
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell
But like general tenets of morality, they are apt to be commonplaces, whose specific application requires knowledge of concrete facts.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
Above all, the Queen knew that her eldest son, whose private opinions varied between the tenets of Hobbes and those of the Church of Rome, would have liked to be tolerant.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes