Liberty And Liberalism A Protest Against The Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference By The State With Individual Liberty Private Enterp PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. Spurious Liberalism--Modern Instances. "There is no surer way of drying up this great stream of self-help and self-reliance, than to teach the working classes that they should look, not so much to their own efforts, but to the state or the municipality."-- Professor Fawcett. "The popular cry now is for the state to override the man; for legislation to supply the place of open competition and free personal action."-- Joseph Cowen. "Democracies should leave as little as possible for the state to do. Every citizen should prevent, as much as possible, any control over individual energy."--Bradlaugh. "It is proposed to mitigate or extirpate poverty by governmental regulation of industry and accumulation. The substitution of government direction for the play of individual action, and the attempt to secure by restriction what can better be secured by freedom. . Whatever savours of regulation and restriction is in itself had." -- Henry George. I HAVE already ventured to submit to my readers what I may term a theory of the growth of Liberalism in Great Britain, as generalised from what I conceive to be a broad and comprehensive study of that nation's political history. At the risk of seeming to repeat myself, I venture to shortly re-state that theory. Whatever may have been the condition of the English people, prior to the conquest of 1066, that important event at once plunged the whole oC the conquered population into a condition of absolute subjection to the Norman invaders. Whatever liberty the people had acquired and enjoyed, prior to that event, was, in fact, taken from them by the sudden accession of the new monarch, who, at once, assumed all the rights and powers incidental to the despotic position which he had secured by...