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" Above all nations is humanity. "
Above
Nations
Humanity
" America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. "
Things
America
Over
" Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. "
Something
Art
Expression
" 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. "
Old
Poetry
Thought
" 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. "
Will
Run
Study
" 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. "
Political
Said
Eyes
" Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches. "
Heart
Poetry
May
" If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. "
Real
Middle
Live
" I heard Thackeray thank Heaven for the purity of Dickens. I thanked Heaven for the purity of a greater than Dickens - Thackeray himself. "
Than
Himself
Heaven
" 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. "
Great
She
Time
" 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. "
History
Evolution
Influence
" 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. "
Question
Duty
Civilization
" 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. "
History
Aesthetic
See
" Personality is lower than partiality. "
Lower
Than
Partiality
" Rome was great in arms, in government, in law. "
Arms
Government
Great
" That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain. "
Wealthy
Great
Certain
" The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke. "
Character
Joke
English
" The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation. "
Real
Be Real
Humanity
" The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border. "
Border
Barriers
Natural
" The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature. "
Study
Work
Human
" 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. "
Look
Humanity
Without
" 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. "
Ugly
Find
Country
" 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. "
People
Art
Back
" 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. "
Strength
Discipline
Feel
" The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. "
Romans
Race
Nature
" We must also be permitted to bear in mind that evolution, though it may explain everything else, cannot explain itself. "
May
Evolution
Everything
" 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. "
Existence
Been
May
" 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? "
History
Character
Differences
" 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. "
Say
I Am
Emotion
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