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Excerpt from Welcome to Goldwin Smith, Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, England Herbert said religion was on tiptoe to pass from England to America; but we would not have it literally true, even with respect to a religious love of liberty. Our friend will tell this to Englishmen, and tell them, too, that we mean to be worthy of our sires. He sees us here, to-day, animated with this resolve but, I must remind him that he sees a rem nant only: as was once said to me in a beautiful New England village Ah, sir The best of us are under ground. We hope to labour as we can for a country which has been preserved to us by so much of the best blood of the Nation; but, we...
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "My Memory of Gladstone" by Goldwin Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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Written in honor of John E. Murdoch's seventieth birthday, the essays collected here focus on the interpretation of ancient and scientific texts not just as isolated intellectual productions but as responses to particular settings or contexts.