Goldwin Smith Quotes

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

Mind, Everything, May

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.
Goldwin Smith

May, Whatever, Themselves

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

History, Character, Doubt

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

Cannot, Religious, Church

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Historian

Born: August 13, 1823

Died: June 7, 1910

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