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Above all nations is humanity.

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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?

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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.

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Personality is lower than partiality.

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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.

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Rome was great in arms, in government, in law.

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The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race.

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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.

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That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Historian

Born: August 13th, 1823

Died: June 7th, 1910

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