Goldwin Smith Quotes - Page 2

• America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

  Goldwin Smith

  Ugly Things, America, Pretentious

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

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• 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

  Character, Scotch, Differences

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

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• 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

  Real, Civilization, India

  Goldwin Smith (1897). “Essays on Questions of the Day, Political and Social”

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• 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

  Youth, Strive, Genesis

  Goldwin Smith (1904). “Lines of Religious Inquiry: An Address Delivered to the Unitarian Club of Toronto”

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