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A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLISH LIBERALISM
BY
W. LYON BLEASE
No rational man ever did govern himself by abstractions and universals.... A statesman differs from a professor in an university; the latter has only the general view of society.... A statesman, never losing sight of principles, is to be guided by circumstances; and, judging contrary to the exigencies of the moment, he may ruin his country for ever.
Burke, "On the Petition of the Unitarians."
T. FISHER UNWIN LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE LEIPSIC: INSELSTRASSE 20
TO "THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN"
First Published in 1913
(All rights reserved.)
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Liberalism and Toryism 7
II. Political Conditions in the Reign of George III 42
III. The First Movement towards Liberalism 69
IV. The French Revolution and English Opinion 100
V. The Decline of Toryism 142
VI. The Middle-Class Supremacy 168
VII. The Manchester School and Palmerston 190
VIII. The Beginning of the Gladstone Period 230
IX. Gladstone versus Disraeli 265
X. The Imperialist Reaction 294
XI. Liberalism since 1906 324