The crisis of liberalism - Couverture souple

Hobson, J A

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 5518760078 ISBN 13 : 9785518760073

Editeur : Book on Demand Ltd., 2013

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The constitutional fracas caused by the invasion of the ancient privileges of the House of Commons by the House of Lords well serves to indicate, though by no means to comprehend, the crisis with which English Liberalism is confronted. No English Liberal of the seventies would have deemed it possible that so evidently obsolescent an organ of Government as the House of Lords should, within a single generation, have come to show so vigorous a spirit of encroachment. Nor could it, had not Liberalism itself shown defects of vision and of purpose which sowed doubt and distraction iimong its followers. i Before the great new tasks of political reconstruction i g.nd social reform, which lay along the plain path of progress, the party quailed. The first test issue, Home jR ule, was the signal, not merely for open schism and jwholesale desertion, but for reluctance and despondency among large sections of those who formally accepted the policy. For then for the first time Liberalism was urged to apply the principles of self-government in such a manner as involved reformation in the ownership of property. The failure to carry through this policy in the mid- eighties was a humiliation which bred selfdistrust. Though this period synchronised with fresh and full disclosures of poverty and sweating in our towns, of the decay of rural industry and population, of conflicts of capital and labour assuming graver and more dangerous aspects. Liberalism made no serious endeavour to formulate an organic policy of social reform.
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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Book on Demand Ltd.
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 5518760078
• ISBN 13: 9785518760073
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 308