This
paper discusses the ideas and works of poets, Augustus Toplay and Matthew Arnold. The paper contends that Toplay, like
Arnold, believed that human
life was empty and lonely without the presence of the divine and the striving of humanity to understand God and to integrate God into the daily life of humans. The
paper examines Toplay's belief that judgment absent of pure democratic will must reign, but unlike Arnold, he was concerned that such a moral regime would be coherent theologically with what Toplay considered true, that is, traditional.