...of the select few, of the chosen leaders of the community, would displace the dread of the masses. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit...faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal, it is the discharge of a moral obligation," ie t it is a political...

...highest political end." This may be supplemented by the golden words in a letter to Mary Gladstone : "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit...over race, of faith over faith, of class over class." This Bridgnorth Lecture also assigns to America her place in the march of the nations. Acton believed...

...the select few, on 1 the chosen leaders of the community, would displace] the dread of the masses. The danger is not that a particular class is unfit...unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish i the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of \ class over class. It is not the realisation...

...chosen leaders of the community, would displace the dread of the masses. Thejdanger "is not that__a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." Tne"law of liberty tends"tb" abolish the 'reign of" race 5Ter"ntCe; of faith over faith, of class over...

...abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation. However that may be, the transfer of power to the lower class was not the act of Mr. Gladstone, but...

...highest political end." This may be supplemented by the golden words in a letter to Mary Gladstone: "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit...over race, of faith over faith, of class over class." This Bridgnorth Lecture also assigns to America her place in the march of the nations. Acton believed...

...any of its stages ; that is, for the period of training or for that of service. Lord Acton says : " The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race...over race, of faith over faith, of class over class." To that law of liberty we are devoted, and we shall not rest until we see our primary education fashioned...

...because it permits of liberty to neither ; in its inception and in its fruition it spells bondage. And " the danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern," for " every class is unfit to govern " ; but " the law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race...

...sought no farther than in the words of England's best informed and ablest sons. As Lord Acton says: "The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern." *. Lay Sermons, Addresses and Review, p. 130. CHAPTER III DEMOCRACY ASTOCRACY concentrates political...

...prejudice and incompetence of the classes. The extension of the franchise is " not the realisation of a political ideal : it is the discharge of a moral obligation." The plea for democratic control alike in industry and in politics is based on the belief that a share...