Even Pitt does not come up to Froude's standard, for Pitt removed Lord Camden, and sent out Lord Cornwallis.
-- * English in Ireland, iii.

336.
-- It is no disqualification for an historian to hold definite views, which, if he holds them, it must surely be his duty to express.

The fault of The English in Ireland is to overstate the case, to make it appear that there was no ground for rebellion in 1798, and no objection to union in 1800.

The whole book is written on the supposition that the Irish are an inferior race and Catholicism an inferior religion.

So far as religion was concerned, Lecky did not disagree with Froude.