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James Anthony Froude

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About James Anthony Froude

James Anthony Froude was an English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fraser's Magazine. From his upbringing amidst the Anglo-Catholic Oxford Movement, Froude intended to become a clergyman, but doubts about the doctrines of the Anglican church, published in his scandalous 1849 novel The Nemesis of Faith, drove him to abandon his religious career. Froude turned to writing history, becoming one of the best-known historians of his time for his History of England from the Fall of Wols…

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The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.