How are industrialism and self-discovery (in other words, science and religion) during the Victorian era revealed in "Locksley Hall"?

Tennyson's poem called "Locksley Hall" focuses upon a young man returning to his childhood home, the titular Locksley Hall, and lamenting the fact that his beloved has married someone else. For the most part, the "plot" of the poem is relatively straightforward, and unlike many of Tennyson's other poems, it has not stood the test of time as a beloved text as a result of the misogynistic nature of the speaker's views on women and their "shallower brains." Some have argued that Tennyson is satirizing men who held such opinions because the poet himself did not seem to espouse them elsewhere; within the text itself, however, there is little to support this interpretation.
The poem is a journey of self-discovery for the speaker, albeit a vitriolic and embittered one. The protagonist, in protesting that his beloved's chosen husband is a "clown," rails against the society which has left him alone and without her:

Cursed be the social wants that sin against the strength of youth!Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth!

The protagonist goes on to realize that his beloved will soon have a child that she will love even more than her husband, and the protagonist cries out, "Hide me from my deep emotion, O thou wondrous Mother-Age!" He is recognizing that his feelings of love, now spurned, are unbearable to him, and he wishes to be relieved of them.
What makes the poem more interesting from our standpoint, however, is its latter section in which the speaker, seemingly inspired by the rise of industrialization, makes some incredibly prescient comments about the future of industry. Speaking of "men the workers, ever reaping something new," the protagonist then describes a "Vision of the world" he has seen in the future, extrapolating from what "new" things have already been created:

Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails,Pilots of the purple twilight dropping down with costly bales;Heard the heavens fill with shouting, and there rain'd a ghastly dewFrom the nations' airy navies grappling in the central blue

This seems like a remarkable portrait of the air travel and air warfare that would result from industrialization reaching its peak at the time of the poet's writing. Interestingly, we can also observe the effects of globalization in the speaker's vision. As lines of communication improved, empires expanded, and the world began to seem smaller. It is in the midst of all of this that Tennyson's speaker anticipates a "Federation of the world," a time in which there will no longer be war and simply unity among nations.
Still, however, the speaker seems to feel that he does not understand his own existence—"knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." The speaker repeats this twice, a phrase which seems to encapsulate the Victorian anxiety around the understanding of the self in a world that no longer seemed clear. He seems to long for an Eden in which he thinks there will be more to enjoy than what exists "in the steamship, in the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind." However, he is tied to the industrial reality of this life. While at the end of the poem, the speaker appeals to "ancient founts of inspiration," he embodies the anxieties of someone no longer as certain of such inspiration as he would like to be.