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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.

Above all nations is humanity.

Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

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

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?

It is evident that in the period designated as that of the kings, when Rome commenced her career of conquest, she was, for that time and country, a great and wealthy city.

That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

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 insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke.

The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.

The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

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.

Personality is lower than partiality.

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.

I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself.

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.

Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.

As to London we must console ourselves with the thought that if life outside is less poetic than it was in the days of old, inwardly its poetry is much deeper.

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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