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The [[origin]]al [[meaning]] of "mainstream" is "the principal current of a river." Its use as a [[metaphor]]ical reference to popular opinion or taste appeared at least as early as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle Thomas Carlyle]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sartor_Resartus Sartor Resartus] in 1831, where he wrote in Chapter VII of "those main currents of what we call Opinion".

The [[origin]]al [[meaning]] of "mainstream" is "the principal current of a river." Its use as a [[metaphor]]ical reference to popular opinion or taste appeared at least as early as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle Thomas Carlyle]'s [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sartor_Resartus Sartor Resartus] in 1831, where he wrote in Chapter VII of "those main currents of what we call Opinion".

==References==

==References==

# Caldwell, John. "Faith in school: as mainstream churches continue to wrestle with homosexuality, some religious colleges are taking an increasingly welcoming attitude toward gay students,", The Advocate Sept 2, 2003

# Caldwell, John. "Faith in school: as mainstream churches continue to wrestle with homosexuality, some religious colleges are taking an increasingly welcoming attitude toward gay students,", The Advocate Sept 2, 2003