Goldwin Smith
Goldwin Smith
Goldwin Smithwas a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth13 August 1823
CountryCanada
historical excellence ancient
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
discipline soldier citizens
The Roman legions were formed in the first instance of citizen soldiers, who yet had been made to submit to a rigid discipline, and to feel that in that submission lay their strength.
real humanity fields
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
youth strive genesis
In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology.
real civilization england
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 duty there.
character differences scotch
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 and still affect the course of history?
running hype mind
But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.
beauty heart ignorant
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
country kings cities
It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.
london poetic deeper
As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.
artist age students
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
ugly-things america pretentious
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
humanity nations
Above all nations is humanity,