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Lord Roberts' Forty-one Years in India, i. 94. Ibid. p. 431. Contemporary Review, May 1897. Article by William O'Brien, 'Was Fenianism ever Formidable? Roche's Life of John Boyle O'Reilly, with introduction by Cardinal Gibbons. Lecky's criticism I did not know that Mr. O'Reilly had ever been a Fenian or a British soldier, or that he had tried to seduce other soldiers from their allegiance.
The claim made by many of Lecky's admirers, that he was a philosophic historian, as distinct from literary historians like Carlyle and Macaulay, and scientific like Stubbs and Gardiner, has injured him in the eyes of many historical students who believe that if there be such a thing as the philosophy of history the narrative ought to carry it naturally.
It'll be stuffy wi' all th' people an' the corpse in Lecky's." "Aye," he said, "I'll do all I can." To Kitty she said, "I've asked Johnny t' keep gey close t' ye till it's all over, Kitty. Ye'll understand." "Aye," Kitty said, "Henry loved 'im more'n aany maan on th' Lough!" "Had tay yit?" Willie Withero asked as he blundered in on the scene. "No, Willie, 'deed we haaven't thought ov it!"
These are given in full detail in historical and economical treatises, notably in Lecky's "History of the Eighteenth Century," and in Dr. Kay's "Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes." A list of the more important authorities on the subject will be found in the general bibliography at the end.
For the social side, consult Traill, Vols. IV. and V., and Cheney's Industrial and Social History of England. Lecky's History of England in the Eighteenth Century is an excellent work. The Cambridge History of English Literature, Vols. Courthope's A History of English Poetry, Vols. III., IV., and V. Stephen's English Literature in the Eighteenth Century.
He might also buy Lecky's Works, and Sir John Strachey's "India," and Buckle's "History of Civilization," for, whatever the faults of the last may be, the writer's style is admirable, and the book stirs up thought and inquiry in the mind. Addison's "Spectator," as it is commonly called, Amiel's "Journal," and Locke's "Conduct of the Understanding," might also be bought.
Interesting as Froude's narrative is, it becomes, when read together with Lecky's, more interesting still. Though indignant with Froude's aspersions upon the Irish race, Lecky did not allow himself to be hurried. He was writing a history of England as well as of Ireland, and the Irish chapters had to wait their turn. In Froude's book there are signs of haste; in Lecky's there are none.
Lecky's reminiscences The question of the Irish Church The Independence of Belgium Lord John on the claims of the Vatican Letters to Mr. Chichester Fortescue His scheme for the better government of Ireland Lord Selborne's estimate of Lord John's public career Frank admissions As his private secretaries saw him.
Works, x. 77. Ibid. x. 147. Works, x. 176. Works, x. 171. Works, x. 163-64. Cf. Ibid. x. 195, where Wilson is often 'tempted to think' erroneously, of course that Paley must have known something of Bentham's work. Paley's chief source was Abraham Tucker. See J. H. Burton in Works, i. 11. Given in Works, x. 201-12. See Lecky's Eighteenth Century, x. 210-97, for an account of these transactions.
Think as we will about dogma, few will feel competent to contest Lecky's verdict, when the historian of Rationalism and of European Morals declares that Christianity "has been the main source of moral development in Europe"; we know what this religion has done, because its actual record is open to inspection.
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