Yet at least Froude could distinguish one despot from another.

He was entirely opposed, as we have seen, to the alliance with Louis Napoleon against Russia, which culminated in the Crimean War.

Otherwise his sympathy with Liberalism was chiefly academic.

He rejoiced in the University Commission, and in the consequent removal of religious tests for undergraduates.

But he took Carlyle's Latter- Day Pamphlets for gospel, and had no faith in peace by great Exhibitions, or progress by political reform.