![]() Among his ancestors were members of the Clapham Sect, a nineteenth-century group of largely evangelical Anglican social reformers concerned with abolishing slavery and penal reform. Moore in A Passage to India have a mystical link with the past and are able somehow to connect with people from beyond their own circles, reconciling the "irreconcilable" class differences only through a spiritual deus ex machina.īorn in London, the son of an architect, he was to have been named Henry but was baptized Edward by accident. Forster's humanistic ideas recognize the difficulties of overcoming class differences, but he introduces a mystical element to help resolve these problems. This problem is somewhat mitigated by his use of mysticism, for which he has been criticized. ![]() ![]() Forster is also known for a creed of life which can be summed up in the epigraph to his 1910 novel Howards End, "Only connect." Forster's two most noted works, A Passage to India and Howards End, explore the irreconcilability of class differences. Edward Morgan Forster (Janu– June 7, 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, and essayist. ![]()
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