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.
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, … - Goldwin Smith
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, …
- Goldwin Smith
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious. - Goldwin Smith
America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door. - Goldwin Smith
Rich by nature, poor by policy' might be written over Canada's door.
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express. - Goldwin Smith
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit. - Goldwin Smith
Ottawa - a sub-arctic lumber-village converted by royal mandate into a political cockpit.
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
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.
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown. - Goldwin Smith
The mighty and supreme Jesus, who was to transfigure all humanity by his divine wit and grace-this Jesus has flown.
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them. - Goldwin Smith
We Jews regard our race as superior to all humanity, and look forward, not to its ultimate union with other races, but to its triumph over them.
The father of confederation is deadlock. - Goldwin Smith
The father of confederation is deadlock.
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