slands
are the Roman Catholic priests and bishops. They stand, step, and
speak out with as fine a consciousness of power as in Ireland itself ....
Large, authoritative, dignified, with their long sweeping
robes. The old thing is getting fast on its feet again. The
philosophers and critics have done for Protestantism as a positive,
manly, and intellectually credible explanation of the world. The old
organism and old superstition steps into its ancient dominion-
finding it swept and garnished."

In San Domingo at sunrise Froude's meditations were far from
cheerful: "The sense of natural beauty is nothing where man is
degraded." So far Bishop Heber in a well-known couplet.

Froude proceeds: "The perception of beauty is the perception of
something which is acting upon and elevating the intellectual
nature. . . It is connected with hope, connected with the
consciousness of the noble element in the human soul; and where it
is unperceived, or where there is none to perceive it, or where it
falls dead, and fails in its effect, the solitary eye which gazes
will find no pleasure, no joy--only distress--as for something
calling to him out of a visionary world from which his own race is
shut out. We cannot feel healthily alone. The sense of worship, the
sense of beauty, the sense of sight, is only alive and keen when
shared by others .... It is something not alone, but generated by
the action of the object on the soul. Thus in these islands there is
only sadness. In New Zealand there was hope and life."

A passage from the diary concerning the appointment of Colonial
Governors will be regarded by all official persons as obsolete.

"The English nation, if they wish to keep the Colonies, ought to
insist on proper men being chosen as Governors .... The Colonial
Office is not to blame and will only be grateful for an expression
of opinion which will enable them to answer pressure upon them with
a peremptory 'Impossible.' Court influence, party influence, party
convenience, all equally injurious. A noble lord is out at elbows;
give him a Governorship of a Colony. A party politician must be
disappointed in arrangements at home; console him with a Colony. The
Colonists feel that no respect is felt for them; anybody will do for
a Colony; and whether it is a Crown Colony, or a with responsible
government of its own, the effect is equally mischievous. In fact,
while they continue liable, and occasionally subject, to treatment
of this