Froude felt that there were things which reason could not explain, and that no revelation was needed to trace the limits of knowledge.

Sceptical as he was in many ways, he had the belief which is fundamental, which no scientific discovery or philosophic speculation can shake or move.

Creeds and Churches might come or go.
The moral law remained where it was.

His own creed is expressed in that which he attributes to Luther.

"The faith which Luther himself would have described as the faith that saved is the faith that beyond all things and always truth is the most precious of possessions, and truthfulness the most precious of qualities; that when truth calls, whatever the consequence, a brave man is bound to follow."* -- * Short Studies, iii.