He was grateful to the students, and gave them of his best, so that this lecture may be taken as an epitome of his moral and religious belief.
-- * Short Studies, vol.ii.pp.

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-- "Calvinism," he told these lads, "was the spirit which rises in revolt against untruth; the spirit which, as I have shown you, has appeared and reappeared, and in due time will appear again, unless God be a delusion and man be as the beasts that perish.

For it is but the inflashing upon the conscience with overwhelming force of the nature and origin of the laws by which mankind are governed--laws which exist, whether we acknowledge them or whether we deny them, and will have their way, to our weal or woe, according to the attitude in which we please to place ourselves towards them--inherent, like electricity, in the nature of things, not made by us, not to be altered by us, but to be discerned and obeyed by us at our everlasting peril." The essence of Froude's belief, not otherwise dogmatic, was a constant sense of God's presence and overruling power.

Sceptical his mind in many ways was.

The two things he never doubted, and would not doubt, were theism and the moral law.