In this and many ways they are totally unlike what I expected." Again, after a description of Cornell's University, he says, "There is Mr.
Cornell, who has made all this, living in a little poky house in a street with a couple of maids, his wife and daughters dressed in the homeliest manner.

His name will be remembered for centuries as having spent his wealth in the very best institutions on which a country's prosperity depends.

Our people spend their fortunes in buying great landed estates to found and perpetuate their own family.

I wonder which name will last the longest, Mr.Cornell's or Lord Overstone's." "There is no such thing," he says elsewhere, "as founding a family, and those who save good fortunes have to give them to the public when they die for want of a better use to put them to." With sincerely religious people, especially if they were Evangelicals, Froude felt deep sympathy.

Patronage of religion he detested, most of all the form of it which prescribes religion for other people.