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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Declaration of Independence in the light of modern criticism, the. (search)
ic, seems here to labor under the disadvantage of having transferred to the document which he undertakes to judge much of the extreme dislike which he has for the man who wrote it, whom, indeed, he regards as a sophist, as a demagogue, as quite capable of inveracity in speech, and as bearing some resemblance to Robespierre in his feline nature, his malignant egotism, and his intense suspiciousness, as well as in his bloody-minded, yet possibly sincere, philanthropy. In the opinion of Prof. Goldwin Smith, our great national manifesto is written in a highly rhetorical strain ; it opens with sweeping aphorisms about the natural rights of man, at which political science now smiles, and which . . . might seem strange when framed for slave-holding communities by a publicist who himself held slaves ; while, in its specifications of fact, it is not more scrupulously truthful than are the general utterances of the statesman who was its scribe. Its charges that the several offensive acts of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), entry 1598 (search)
uring the past few years so suddenly grown to large proportions among publicists abroad is almost all of it directed to the restraints we have effected upon the action of government. Sir Henry Maine thought our federal Constitution an admirable reservoir, in which the mighty waters of democracy are held at rest, kept back from free destructive course. Lord Rosebery has wondering praise for the security of our Senate against usurpation of its functions by the House of Representatives. Mr. Goldwin Smith supposes the saving act of organization for a democracy to be the drafting and adoption of a written constitution. Thus it is always the static, never the dynamic, forces of our government which are praised. The greater part of our foreign admirers find our success to consist in the achievement of stable safeguards against hasty or retrogressive action; we are asked to believe that we have succeeded because we have taken Sir Archibald Alison's advice, and have resisted the infection
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Free thought. (search)
Free thought. On the general subject of the growth of Free Thought with special reference to the United States, we present a condensation of Professor Goldwin Smith's views. The history of religion during the past century may be described as the sequel of that dissolution of the mediaeval faith which commenced at the Reformation. At the Reformation Protestantism threw off the yoke of pope and priest, priestly control over conscience through the confessional, priestly absolution for sin, and belief in the magical power of the priest as consecrator of the Host, besides the worship of the Virgin and the saints, purgatory, relics, pilgrimages, and other incidents of the medieval system. Though Protestantism produced a multitude of sects, especially in England at the time of the Commonwealth, hardly any of them were free-thinking or sceptical; those of any importance, at all events, were in some sense dogmatic, and were anchored to the inspiration of the Bible. Under th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Smith, Goldwin 1823- (search)
Smith, Goldwin 1823- Author; born in Reading, England, Aug. 23, 1823; graduated at Oxford University in 1845; was Professor of Modern History at Oxford in 1858-66. During the Civil War in the United States he was a stanch champion of the national government. He visited the United States in 1864, and later was for a time honorary Professor of English and Constitutional History at Cornell University. In 1871 he settled in Toronto, Canada. He is widely known as an exponent of the idea that Canada will finally unite her political life with that of the United States. His publications include Does the Bible sanction American slavery? on the morality of the emancipation proclamation; A letter to a Whig member of the Southern Independence Association; England and America; The Civil War in America; The relations between England and America; The political destiny of Canada; William Lloyd garrison; History of the United States, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Todd, Marion 1881- (search)
Todd, Marion 1881- Lawyer; born in Plymouth, N. Y.; educated in Eaton Rapids schools and at Ypsilanti Normal School, in Michigan; admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of California in 1881; and practised there for several years. She wrote Prof. Goldwin Smith and his satellites in Congress; Protective tariff delusion; Pizarro and John Sherman; and Railroads of Europe and America.