The novelist must look on humanity witho... by Goldwin Smith

journalist historian Humanity critic Sympathy

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

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EnglFancy Mind Will

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.

- Goldwin Smith

Nature

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

- Goldwin Smith

America

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

Discipline First

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

Eyes God

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.

- Goldwin Smith

History

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.

- Goldwin Smith

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