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
race humanity looks
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.
jesus grace humanity
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
sympathy party humanity
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 party.
real humanity fields
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
humanity nations
Above all nations is humanity,
law manner rightly roman rule wrongly
Roman law in the same manner was a rule of expediency, rightly or wrongly conceived, with comparatively little tincture of religion.
clearly division great hand lines
Of all the lines of division in Great Britain, the most important politically has been that which is least clearly traced by the hand of nature.
dickens greater heard heaven purity thank
I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.
faithful ground human novelist work
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
cannot mind permitted though
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
nature warlike
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
great
That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.
beings both existence influences regard respecting themselves whatever
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 or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
life perpetual
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication.