Goldwin Smith Quotes

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• America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
• The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or…
• Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real…
• The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
• Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected…
• That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
• The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
• I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
• If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.
• It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to…
• We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
• Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings…

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