"The philosophic historian, studying hereafter this present age, in which we are ourselves living, may say that it was a time of unexampled prosperity, luxury, and wealth; but catching at certain horrible murders which have lately disgraced our civilisation, may call us a nation of assassins. It is to invert the pyramid and stand it on its point."
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James Anthony Froude, "The Influence of the Reformation on the Scottish Character" a lecture in Edinburgh (November 1865); published in Short Studies on Great Subjects
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