The liberal movement in English literature

William John Courthope

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• Liberalism
• English literature

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LONDON'THE
JLIBEEAL MOVEMENT
IN
BY WILLIAM JOHN M.A.COURTHOPE,
AUTHOR OF BIRDS''THB PARADI8B OF SIC.
LONDON
JOHN ALBEMARLEMURRAY, STtfEET^
1885
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Cntenacious are we of our old ecclesiastical modes and fashionsSo
inof that little has been made them sinceinstitution, very change
the fourteenth or fifteenth in thiscenturies, adhering particular,
as in all to our old maxim never nor at onceelse, settled entirely
onto from We found these institutions thedepart antiquity.
whole favourable to and and wemorality discipline, thought they
thewere of amendment without Wesusceptible altering ground.
were of and aboveand,thought they capable receiving meliorating
i
.
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of the accessories of science and literature as theall, preserving
order of Providence should them. And aftersuccessively produce
with this Gothic and monkish education such it is in theall, (for
we in our claim to as and agroundwork), may put ample early
share in all the in in and in literaturescience,improvements arts,
which have illuminated the modern world as other nation inany
thinkWe one main cause of this was ourEurope. improvement
not the of which was left us ourdespising patrimony knowledge by
forefathers.
an tJieBURKE, French Revolution.ReflectionsPBEFACE.
'
THP: in the Nationalfollowing papers appeared
with the of a fewand,Review,' exception para-
I have it best tographs, thought republish
in their form. Their issue at setthem original
intervals has me thegiven advantagemonthly
of the kind of to beobserving judgments likely
on them : on the other ithand,pronounced
has critics from con-necessarily prevented my
them with reference to the assidering argument
whole. Various anda conflicting objections
have been made to the inopinions expressed
them. I of to these incourse,might, reply
as the are now in abut,detail, papers grouped
I to them without com-volume, prefer present
ment to the consideration of theimpartial reader,
a few words on a on whichadding pointonlyviii PREFACE
intention seems to have been very generallymy
misunderstood.
that IIt has been to me prejudicesuggested
cause to a a titlemy by giving literary subject
with it associations.necessarily carrying political
'
TheI have called the seriesindeed,might,
butRomantic Movement in Literature,'English
this would not have all I hadthatexpressed
in mind. Art is the ideal ofreflectionmy
national and owes much of itslife, development
to the social and causes that determine
political
the course of a Even, therefore,people's history.
if I had intended to illustrate from thesimply
ofthe the effects ofpoetry present century political
the democratic movement since the Frenchgreat
in I IRevolution have1789, could, think, pro-
with historic materials notvided irrele-myself
vant to the But is it correct to limitsubject.
''
the use of the word Liberalism to ? to
politics
with the eventsassociate it thatsimply produced
in the Poor thethe extension of thechange Law,
the of the Corn and theFranchise, Repeal Laws,
? Isof the Press it not ratherEmancipation
the case these arethat the external mani-only