# A Short History of English Liberalism

Author: Blease, W. Lyon (Walter Lyon), 1884-1963

Genre: Category: History - British

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34713

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+Short+History+of+English+Liberalism+Blease&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

This book attempts to trace the varying but persistent course of Liberalism in British politics during the last hundred and fifty years. It is not so much a history of events as a reading of them in the light of a particular political philosophy. In the strict sense a history of Liberalism should cover much more than politics. The same habit of mind is to be discovered everywhere else in the history of thought, most conspicuously in religious history, but not less certainly in the history of science and of art. The general victory in these innumerable conflicts of opinion has been to Liberalism, and the movement of the race, during the period with which the writer is concerned, is precise...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/6/index.md)
- [xxix. 557, and contrast the judge and the juries in William Hone's trials](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-short-history-of-english-liberalism-34713/chapters/12/index.md)