That which constitutes human goodness, human nobleness, is surely not the degree of enlightenment with which men pursue their own advantage; but it is self-forgetfulness; it is self-sacrifice; it is the disregard of personal pleasure, personal indulgence, personal advantage, remote or present, because some other line of conduct is more right.

— James Anthony Froude

Wild animals never hunt for sport. Man is the only one to whom the shooting of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

Bugs Bunny to Elmer Fudd

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.” - James Anthony Froude

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

— James Anthony Froude

Wild animals never kill for sport; man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

James Anthony Froude

Froude is consistent – he paints a very unflattering picture of Cicero in Caesar: a Sketch. He shows Cicero as a someone who gained what power he had only through oration and had no idea what the actual problems facing Rome were and what could be done to solve them. Caesar was unacceptable because he was going to change the dysfunctional status quo but Cicero understood how to exercise power in the status quo. An example that he cites is when Caesar introduced the Julian calendar because the contemporary Roman calendar had drifted months away from the seasons – Cicero attacked him saying that Caesar was arrogant enough to think he could change the date – surely an effective rhetorical attack but opposite the reality and more importantly an attempt to block a solution to a problem that a *leader* wanted solved because the leader had responsibility. Perfect encapsulation of the orator / leader gap that Froude discusses.

Steve Johnson

“Men’s hearts are failing them for fear, not knowing any longer where to rest. We look this way and that way, and catch at one another like drowning men. Go where you will, you find the same phenomena. Science grows, and observers are adding daily to our knowledge of the nature and structure of the material universe, but they tell us nothing, and can tell us nothing, of what we most want to know. They cannot tell us what our own nature is. They cannot tell us what God is, or what duty is. We had a belief once, in which, as in a boat, we floated safely on the unknown ocean; but the philosophers and critics have been boring holes in the timbers to examine the texture of the wood, and now it leaks at every one of them. We have to help ourselves in the best way that we can.” — James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude : Fear is the parent of cruelty

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James Anthony Froude

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

James Anthony Froude.

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Just how much did the English hate the Irish?

...”James Anthony Froude: “[The Irish are] more like squalid apes than human beings”

Charles Kingsley, the author of The Water Babies, writing from Ireland that he was “haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country”. 

Punch magazine repeatedly, throughout the reign of Victoria, portrayed the Irish as Simian creatures, chimp-like, with long arms and the long upper lip of the monkey.

The Times’ editorials excoriated the Irish at every turn for their “want of character”, fecklessness, hopelessness, and so on.

Sydney Webb, founder of The New Statesman, suggested in 1911 that the Irish (and the Jews) should be forcibly sterilised for bringing into English cities their large families and criminal genes”...

-- The Atlantic

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