Life of Canning (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

H. W. V. Temperley

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ISBN 10 : 1331372712 ISBN 13 : 9781331372714

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Within the last few years England has been pledged to an alliance with one power, and has signed a treaty settling all outstanding difficulties with another. Our alliance has already made a war possible in Asia whilst it would be idle to deny that our settlement with F rance does not imply some change of our policy in Europe. There is here no desire to censure, no attempt even to criticize either of these momentous steps. It is enough to say that before each was taken there was no definite or even perhaps perceptible impulse from the people, who are yet supposed to direct all government. Lack of interest in foreign policy, except in the broadest outline, is a feature of Englishmen to-day. Perhaps this is the reason why the man whom Lord Acton termed our greatest foreign minister has waited so long for his biographer. Mr. A. G. Stapleton, his private secretary, indeed published two laborious works in his defence The Political Life of Canning, and the Life and Times of George Canning. The former is a successful but tedious defence of his later foreign policy, but more of the nature of a polemic than a history. The latter is a collection of letters and memoranda linked together by a most discursive and heavy commentary, golden beads indeed. But strung on the most tawdry and commonplace of threads. Stapleton knew little of Canning's life before 1815, and made no attempt to trace the connection between his earlier and later policies, whilst his argumentative and apologetic attitude did not admit of critical conclusions, broad views, or final estimates.

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Bentham sgreat reforms in Srffi c2il law are so perfected and achieved that his name 5ce are in danger of being forgotten. A dam Smith 08 I toy destroyed the old fallacy that bullion was wealth 18 w Srie can read parts of his great work without im 3z Such to some extent has been the fate of Canning. gi 0) p. art of his life-work was the dissolution of the so- 2- wy A lliance, and the assertion of the principle that I 8- nhad a right to manage its own internal affairs. S: 2. i Caph of nationalism during the last century has so 8c)a pted these premises that no one inquires whoo cS: dthem. No one now infers that the meeting of the 8the Kaiser will result in a combination against the IS V. Sworld, no one imagines the Hague Conference into a union of governments against peoples. Many ifficulties with which Canning contended are now unthinkable, and some of his principles have descended from novelty to platitude. But even so, great honour should be paid to their earliest upholder, to the man who first foresaw and promoted the growth of national liberty on the Continent of Europe, when a league of despots had a real existence and yrhen freedom of opinion was more an ideal than a fact A part from its international character the policy of Canning abounds in lessons for the England of to-day.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1331372712
• ISBN 13: 9781331372714
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 313
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