Biographie de l'auteur
The English statesman John Morley (1838-1923), 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn, was educated at Oxford and began his career as a journalist. He was elected to the Parliament in 1883. Raised to the peerage in 1908, he helped steer the Parliament Act of 1911 through the House of Lords. John Morley has his place in Indian history as the other half of the Morley-Minto duo who produced the Morley-Minto reforms of 1909. One of the best biographers of his time, he wrote biographies of Voltaire, Rousseau, Oliver Cromwell and Gladstone.His political and critical writings include Critical Miscellanies, Diderot and the Encyclopedists and On Politics.
Présentation de l'éditeur
On Compromise deals with the art and necessity of compromise. While conducting a reasoned enquiry into the limits of compromise, it also traces the dividing line between lawful and unlawful compromise. What gives this book currency is its treatment of several issues which are as relevant today as they were when it was first published-notably, the necessity of having an honest, independent and wholesome opinion, the need to abandon habits of hypocritical conformity, and the repercussions of acts of coercion.
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