●   ●   ●    furnished him further matter to illustrate the provincialism he had so fastidiously pilloried in his earlier Culture and Anarchy . America itself, he wrote in that book, had so far been “hardly more than a province of England,” and its religious pluralism—proliferating in Mormonism, Shakerism, and such-like curiosa—elicited from him something between a shudder and a smile.