The Project Gutenberg Ebook Of Liberalism, By L T. Hobhouse.
Non-intervention, peace, restriction of armaments, retrenchment of expenditure, discount of taxation, had been the connected collection of sensible consequences. The money retrenched from wasteful navy expenditure need not all be remitted to the taxpayer. A fraction of it devoted to training—free, secular, and common—would do as a lot good as when spent on weapons and ships it did hurt. For schooling was essential to boost the usual of intelligence, and provide the substantial equality of opportunity initially with out which the mass of men couldn’t make use of the liberty given by the removing of legislative restrictions. There have been here elements of a more constructive view for which Cobden and his pals have not at all times received adequate credit.
The fancied clearness of Utopian imaginative and prescient is illusory, because its objects are artificial ideas and never residing details. The “system” of the world of books must be … Read More