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Goldwin Smith Quotes

Goldwin Smith quotes about age

Canadian Historian August 13, 1823 – June 7, 1910

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Goldwin Smith quote: "If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life..."
If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication. Goldwin Smith
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
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. Goldwin Smith
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. Goldwin Smith
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. Goldwin Smith

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