In the remainder of his work he is as free from bias and unfairness as human frailty can well allow.

The annotated editions of Milman and Guizot are guarantees of this.

Their critical animadversions become very few and far between after the first volume is passed.

If he had been animated by a polemical object in writing; if he had used the past as an arsenal from which to draw weapons to attack the present, we may depend that a swift blight would have shrivelled his labours, as it did so many famous works of the eighteenth century, when the great day of reaction set in.

His mild rebuke of the Abbe Raynal should not be forgotten.