The father of confederation is deadlock. Goldwin Smith More Quotes by Goldwin Smith More Quotes From Goldwin Smith The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. Goldwin Smith novelists real humanity 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. Goldwin Smith discipline soldier house Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. Goldwin Smith church religious age 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. Goldwin Smith party humanity sympathy 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? Goldwin Smith scotch differences character 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. Goldwin Smith india real civilization In my youth,geology was nervously striving to accommodate itself to Genesis. Now it is Genesis that is striving to accommodate itself to geology. Goldwin Smith genesis strive youth Canada is said to have got its name from the two Spanish words aca and nada, signifying 'there is nothing here.' Goldwin Smith aca names two If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. Goldwin Smith live your effort life The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. Goldwin Smith romans were nature race That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. Goldwin Smith great wealthy rome certain The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. Goldwin Smith human-nature study nature work I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. Goldwin Smith himself than purity heaven
