But the English cause in the sixteenth century he regarded as national and religious, making for freedom and independence of policy and thought.

To be free, to understand, to enjoy, said Thomas Hill Green, is the claim of the modern spirit.

Froude would not have admitted that man in the philosophic sense was free, or that he could ever hope to understand the ultimate causes of things.

And, though no man was more capable of enjoying the present moment, he would have sternly denied that pleasure, however refined, could be a legitimate aim in life.

He was a disciple of the porch, and not of the garden.