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Which values did George Meredith learn at the Moravian School in Neuwied?

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George Meredith George Meredith, detail of an oil painting by G.F. Watts, 1893; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

At the Moravian School in Neuwied, which George Meredith attended starting in 1842, he received an education that combined humanism with tolerant religious instruction. The school instilled in him several core values that remained with him throughout his life:

To think for himself
To respect truth
To admire courage
To love nature
To live in peace and amity with his fellows1

These experiences, along with the influence of the surrounding Rhineland, significantly shaped his development, though he eventually rejected the school's religious teachings, later identifying as a freethinker.1