History
Froude in 1869, as Lord Rector of St. Andrew’s University, delivered an address on the demoralizing effect of the Church on history. Soon after Charles Kingsley, his brother-in-law, resigned the professorship of history at Cambridge, saying that no honest man could teach history any more. Thereupon these lines appeared, which are ascribed to Stubs, the Bishop of Oxford:
While Froude assures the Scottish youth
That parsons do not care for truth,
The Reverend Canon Kingsley cries
“All history’s a pack of lies!”
What cause for judgment so malign?
A little thought may solve the mystery;
For Froude thinks Kingsley’s a divine,
And Kingsley goes to Froude for history.