“Social reforms, so necessary, so indispensable, require as much of God’s grace as a change of heart.” When the great English statesman William Wilberforce died in 1833, one of those who attended his funeral was Antony Ashley Cooper, later Lord Shaftesbury. In the words of biographer John Pollock, “Thus the two crusades and the lives of two great social reformers touched briefly and symbolically … an end and a beginning.”