tailieunhanh - LIBERALISM EDITORS OF THE HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE PROFESSOR GILBERT MURRAY

The modern State is the distinctive product of a unique civilization. But it is a product which is still in the making, and a part of the process is a struggle between new and old principles of social order. To understand the new, which is our main purpose, we must first cast a glance at the old. We must understand what the social structure was, which—mainly, as I shall show, under the inspiration of Liberal ideas—is slowly but surely giving place to the new fabric of the civic State. The older structure itself was by no means primitive. What. | LIBERALISM EDITORS OF THE HOME UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE PROFESSOR Gilbert Murray . . . Professor G. N. Clark . . Sir Henry Tizard . . LIBERALISM By L. T. HOBHOUSE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO First published in 1911 and reprinted in 1919 1923 1927 1929 1934 1942 and 1944 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN CONTENTS . CHAPTER . I BEFORE LIBERALISM . II THE ELEMENTS OF LIBERALISM o 1. Civil Liberty. 2. Fiscal Liberty. 3. Personal Liberty. 4. Social Liberty. 5. Economic Liberty. 6. Domestic Liberty. 7. Local Racial and National Liberty. 8. International Liberty. 9. Political Liberty and Popular Sovereignty . III THE MOVEMENT OF THEORY . IV LAISSEZ-FAIRE . V GLADSTONE AND MILL . VI THE HEART OF LIBERALISM . VII THE STATE AND THE INDIVIDUAL . VIII ECONOMIC LIBERALISM . IX THE FUTURE OF LIBERALISM . BIBLIOGRAPHY . INDEX Pg 7 LIBERALISM CHAPTER I BEFORE LIBERALISM The modern State is the distinctive product of a unique civilization. But it is a product which is still in the making and a part of the process is a struggle between new and old principles of social order. To understand the new which is our main purpose .