Goldwin Smith Quotes

• Above all nations is humanity.

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  Humanity, Nations

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• 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.

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  Race, Humanity, Triumph

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• Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

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  Art, Expression, Art Is

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Artist, Age, Students

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.

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  Political, Ottawa, Royal

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• The father of confederation is deadlock.

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  Father, Confederation

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• There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.

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  Art, Believe, People

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.

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  Country, Black, Would Be

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.

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  Doors, Canada, Might

  Goldwin Smith (1892). “Canada and the Canadian Question ...”

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• Personality is lower than partiality.

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  Personality, Partiality

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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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.

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  Ugly Things, America, Pretentious

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Running, Hype, Mind

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.

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  Jesus, Grace, Humanity

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• The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

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  Scotland, Kingdoms, England

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, author by Hunter, Rose

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• Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

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  Beauty, Heart, Ignorant

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Country, Kings, Rome

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• 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.

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  London, Poetic, Deeper

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Sympathy, Party, Humanity

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

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  Government, Rome, Law

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

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  Character, Arrogance, Corny

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Dante himself is open to the suspicion of partiality: it is said, not without apparent ground, that he puts into hell all the enemies of the political cause, which, in his eyes, was that of Italy and God.

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  Eye, Political, Enemy

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Discipline, House, Soldier

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

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  Real, Humanity, Novelists

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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• Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

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  Historical, Excellence, Ancient

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• 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.

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  Religious, Age, Church

  Goldwin Smith (1881). “Lectures and Essays”, New York : Macmillan

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