About Goldwin Smith: Goldwin Smith was a British historian and journalist, active in the United Kingdom and Canada.
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 ...
We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself.
Whatever things may have been in their origin, they are what they are, both in themselves and in regard to their indications respecting other beings or influences the existence of which may be implied in theirs.
Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.
The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.
The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.
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.
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.
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.
