Niggerdom perfect happiness.

Schopenhauer should come here." Schopenhauer would perhaps have said that "niggers" were happier than other men because they come nearer to the beasts.
As Froude has been accused of injustice to the Church of Rome, it may be as well to quote an entry from his journal at Trinidad:* "Went to Roman Catholic Cathedral--saw a few men and women on their knees at solitary prayers--much better for them than Methodist addresses on salvation." In another place he says:+ "Religion as a motive alters the aspect of everything--so much of the world rescued from Rome and the great enemy.

Yet the Roman Church after all is something.

It is a cause and a home everywhere--something to care for outside oneself--an something which does not change." -- * January 15th, 1887.
+ February 1st.
-- Again at Barbados, on the 17th of February he writes: "By far the most prosperous of the upper classes that I have seen in the islands 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.