Canadian - Historian | August 13, 1823 - June 7, 1910
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
Goldwin Smith
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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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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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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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It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.
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