“Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is.”

— James Anthony Froude, book The Nemesis of Faith

Preface, Second edition (21 June 1849)
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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