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In " Balin and Balan , " the story of two brothers locked in fratricidal strife , Tennyson was expanding on very brief source material from Malory , and many critics see this dark central addition to the sequence as psychologically the most personal of Tennyson 's Idylls . In other words , we have at our command a store of observation and experience in psychology , which permits us to bring the past once more to life with less effort than is needed for the purely documentary analysis of the conditions of most remote antiquity . You can read him , and about him , in every language , not excluding that of modernized Japan . You have only the choice of two logical alternatives . We are not obliged to furnish an explanation for this miracle , either in the name of materialism , or in the name of any other theory , for the same reason , that no rational mechanics is obliged to explain either the flight of Icarus or the hippogriff of Ariosto . Those who are least vulnerable cope the best and enjoy security , while the opposite applies to those households , communities or broader populations who are most vulnerable and who stand to lose the most from the effects of environmental change and other risks , shocks or stresses . At the last minute , Tennyson withdrew it as " too full of faults , " though Hallam commented on the cancellation , " You must be point blank mad . For all these and other reasons , there is hung in the air , in the fantastic imagination of many , the picture of an ultra-perfect Christianity , which shall be different , or is absolutely different , from the one which vulgar history knows and depicts , a Christianity that stoned Stephen , that instituted the Holy Inquisition , which dispatched so many multitudes of infidels to the other world ; from the barefooted fisherman Peter , who played the part of a Sancho Panza by his cowardly denials , to Pope Pius , who consoled himself for the loss of his temporal power by assuming infallibility ; from the spontaneous agape of the poor visited by the comforter to the Jesuits who arm squadrons and contract commercial loans , like daring harbingers of the colonial policy of the bourgeois world ; from the Rabbi of Nazareth , who says that his kingdom is not of this world , to the bishops and other prelates who occupy in his name from one fifth to one third of the land , according to various countries , and who rule as its sovereigns and proprietors , enjoying even the jus primae noctus . You would not thank me for that a bit . You refer to those critics of different character and nature , who maintain , for many different reasons , that Christianity recoils from a materialistic interpretation of history , and who think that they have thereby raised an insurmountable objection .