He held so strongly the correctness of his own views, and the importance of having a right judgment in all things, that he sometimes gave undue prominence to the facts which supported his theory.

It was only fair and reasonable that critics should draw attention to this characteristic of Froude as an historian.

That he deliberately falsified history is a baseless delusion.

A sterner moralist, a more strenuous worker, it would have been difficult to find.

An artist he could not help being, for it was in the blood.