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Goldwin Smith

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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.


— Goldwin Smith


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We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.


— Goldwin Smith


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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


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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.


— Goldwin Smith


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A Liberal he opposed Benjamin Disraeli and was a strong supporter of Irish Disestablishment but refused to follow Gladstone in accepting Home Rule. ” As a historian indeed he left no abiding work; the multiplicity of his interests prevented him from concentrating on any one subject. He always maintained that Canada separated by great barriers running north and south into four zones each having unimpeded communication with the adjoining portions of the United States was a profoundly artificial and badly-governed nation that was destined by its natural configuration to enter into a commercial union with the US.

D. LL. (August 13 1823 – June 7 1910) was a British historian and journalist active in the United Kingdom and Canada.

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