IX.] Mr. Buckle's Fallacies. 191 



tinue to be. Indeed, with Mr. Buckle's diligence, his 

 honesty, his freedom of thought, his bold outspoken- 

 ness, his hearty admiration for whatever is good and 

 great in man, the tendency of his work could not well 

 be otherwise. All these are qualities which will be 

 remembered when his inaccuracies and errors, how- 

 ever great, shall be forgotten. And whatever may 

 be thought about the correctness or incorrectness of 

 Mr. Buckle's opinions, the world cannot be long in 

 coming to the conclusion that his History of Civilisa- 

 tion in England is a great and noble book, written by 

 a great and noble man. 



September iS6l. 



