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The five arguments commonly used against equal suffrage The theological The physiological The social or political The intellectual The moral Lecky on the nature of women The old and the new conception Thomas on the power of custom Taboo All evolution accompanied by some extravagance Macaulay on liberty The double standard of morality Co-operation The proper sphere for a human being Discrepancies of wages Legal evolution in the interpretation of labour laws The alarmist view of divorce
Lea's History of Sacerdotal Celibacy gives the classical and authoritative account of the moral consequences of the practice of celibacy. For a vivid picture of the psychology of the ascetic, see Flaubert's great romance, St. Antony. Cited by Lecky, ii. p. 131. Dean Milman, Hist. of Latin Christianity, ii. pp. 81-2. Lecky, ii. pp. 134-5. Hereditary Genius, 1869, p. 357. Lea, p. 109. Lea, p. 332.
Irish history, one may well say, is not of such a nature as to put one "on the side of the angels." Lecky's "History of the Eighteenth Century" has made many converts to Home Rule, and I venture to think that when another Lecky comes to write of the history of the nineteenth century the converts which he will make will be even more numerous.
In the same way Schopenhauer called prostitutes "human sacrifices on the altar of monogamy." Lecky, again, in an oft-quoted passage of rhetoric, may be said to combine both the higher and the lower view of the prostitute's mission in human society, to which he even seeks to give a hieratic character. "The supreme type of vice," he declared, "she is ultimately the most efficient guardian of virtue.
He borrowed all sorts of books boldly now from the Octavius public library, and could swim with a calm mastery and enjoyment upon the deep waters into which Draper and Lecky and Laing and the rest had hurled him.
He is a bridge over which we are passing from the creed-enslaved past to the perfect freedom of the future. Mr. Lecky, in his 'History of the Spirit of Rationalism, has shown the process by which truth is advanced. Old errors, he says, do not die because they are refuted, but fade out because they are neglected.
Lecky was quite logical, for the question whether the Union had been wisely or legitimately carried had very little to do with the expedience of repealing it. Fieri non debuit, factum valet, may be common sense as well as good law. But Froude was not unnaturally triumphant to find his old antagonist in Irish matters on his side, especially as Freeman was a Home Ruler.
His own historical studies the literary passion of a lifetime made him keenly appreciative of the work of others in that direction, and kindred tastes drew him into intimate relations with Mr. W. E. H. Lecky.
Side by side with such chastened literary art as that of Thackeray and George Eliot, Matthew Arnold and John Morley, Lecky and Froude, Maine and Symonds, side by side with a Carlylese tendency to extravagance, slang, and caricature, we find another vein in English prose the flat, ungainly, nerveless style of mere scientific research. What lumps of raw fact are flung at our heads!
It is doing, not what we would, but as we ought which changes reluctance into interest, and the sense of futility into the joy of achievement. It is doing what we know to be true which illumines its ever-lasting significance. "You could write stories which people would read," said Lecky repeatedly to George Eliot.
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