The Liberal Tradition by Bullock, Alan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page General Preface Contents Acknowledgements Note Introduction Part I. Fox and the Whig Tradition

1. Civil Liberties

1. Charles James Fox. Speech in the House of Commons, 13 December 1792 2. Charles James Fox. Speech in the House of Commons, 13 May 1794 3. R. B. Sheridan. Speech in the House of Commons, 6 February 1810 4. Earl Grey. Speech in the House of Lords, 23 November 1819 5. Lord John Russell. An Essay on the History of the English Government and Constitution, 1821 6. Lord John Russell. Speech in the House of Commons, 26 February 1828

2. Opposition to the War Against Revolutionary France

7. Charles James Fox. Speech in the House of Commons, 1 February 1793 8. Charles James Fox. Speech in the House of Commons, 17 April 1794 9. Charles James Fox. Speech in the House of Commons, 3 February 1800

3. Foreign Policy and the Struggle for Freedom Abroad

10. Earl Grey. Speech in the House of Lords, 19 February 1821 11. Marquis of Lansdowne. Speech in the House of Lords, 2 March 1821 12. Earl Byron. Sonnet on Chillon. 1816 13. Earl Byron. Childe Harold, Canto IV. 1817 14. Earl Byron. Marino Faliero. 1821

4. Parliamentary Reform

15. Lord John Russell. Speech in the House of Commons, 25 April 1822 16. Lord Melbourne. Speech in the House of Lords, 4 October 1831 17. T. B. Macaulay. Speech in the House of Commons, 2 March 1831

Part II. The Benthamites and the Political Economists, 1776-1830

1. Individualism and Laissez-Faire

18. Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations. 1776 19. Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations. 1776 20. Jeremy Bentham. A Manual of Political Economy. 1798

2. Natural Laws and the Impossibility of Interference

21. T. R. Malthus. Essay on Population. 1798 22. David Ricardo. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. 1819

3. Free Trade

23. Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations.1776 24. David Ricardo. The Principles of Political Economy and Taxation. 1819. 25. Petition of the London Merchants. 1820

4. Colonies

26. Adam Smith. The Wealth of Nations. 1776.

5. Reform

27. Jeremy Bentham. Plan of Parliamentary Reform. 1817 28. David Ricardo. Observations on Parliamentary Reform. 1824 29. Jeremy Bentham. Constitutional Code. 1830 30. John Stuart Mill. Autobiography

Part III. The Age of Cobden and Bright

1. Free Trade and the Repeal of the Corn Laws

31. Petition of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce to the House of Commons, 20 December 1838 32. Richard Cobden. Speech in London, 8 February 1844 33. Richard Cobden. Speech in London, 3 July 1844 34. Lord John Russell. Letter to the Electors of the City of London (The ‘Edinburgh Letter’), 22 November 1845 35. Richard Cobden. Speech at Manchester, 15 January 1846

2. Laissez-Faire

36. Richard Cobden. Russia, 1836 37. Richard Cobden. Speech in the House of Commons, 27 February 1846 38. T. B. Macaulay. Speech in the House of Commons, 22 May 1846 39. Joseph Hume. Speech in the House of Commons, 10 February 1847 40. John Stuart Mill. Principles of Political Economy. 1848

3. Education

41. T. B. Macaulay. Speech in the House of Commons, 18 April 1847 42. John Bright. Speech in the House of Commons, 20 April 1847

4. Religious Liberty

43. T. B. Macaulay. Speech in the House of Commons, 17 April 1833 44. John Bright. Speech in the House of Commons, 12 May 1851 45. John Bright. Speech in the House of Commons, 15 April 1853

5. Foreign Policy

46. Richard Cobden. Speech in the House of Commons, 12 June 1849 47. Viscount Palmerston. Speech at Tiverton, 31 July 1847 48. Richard Cobden. Speech in the House of Commons, 28 June 1850 49. John Bright. Letter to Absalom Watkin, 29 October 1854 50. W. E. Gladstone. Speech in the House of Commons, 3 March 1857 51. John Bright. Speech at Birmingham, 29 October 1858 52. John Bright. Speech at Glasgow, 21 December 1858

6. India and Ireland

53. T. B. Macaulay. Speech in the House of Commons, 10 July 1833 54. John Bright. Speech in the House of Commons, 24 June 1858 55. John Bright. Speech in the House of Commons, 1 August 1859 56. Richard Cobden. Speech at Rochdale, 24 November 1863 57. John Bright. Speech in the House of Commons, 25 August 1848 58. John Bright. Speech in the House of Commons, 2 April 1849

Part IV. The Age of Gladstone

1. The Philosophy of Liberty

59. John Stuart Mill. On Liberty. 1859 60. John Stuart Mill. Representative Government. 1861 61. Lord Acton. A review of Goldwin Smith’s ‘Irish History’ 1862 62. Lord Acton. The History of Freedom in Antiquity. 1877 63. Lord Acton. A review of Sir Ershine May’s ‘Democracy in Europe’. 1878 64. Lord Acton. Letter to Bishop Creighton. 1887 65. Lord Acton. Letter to Mary Gladstone. 1881 66. John Morley. On Compromise. 1874

2. Parliamentary Reform

67. Richard Cobden. Speech at Rochdale, 18 August 1859 68. John Bright. Speech at Rochdale, 3 February 1863 69. Richard Cobden. Speech at Rochdale, 24 November 1863 70. John Bright. Speech at Birmingham, 18 January 1865 71. W. E. Gladstone. Speech at Chester, 31 May 1865 72. W. E. Gladstone. Speech at Manchester, 18 July 1865 73. W. E. Gladstone. Speech in the House of Commons, 27 April 1866 74. John Bright. Speech at Glasgow, 16 October 1866 75. John Bright. Speech at London, 4 December 1866

3. Foreign Policy

76. W. E. Gladstone. Speech in the House of Commons, 7 May 1877 77. W. E. Gladstone. Speech in the House of Commons, 30 July 1878 78. W. E. Gladstone. Speech at Dalkeith, 26 November 1879 79. W. E. Gladstone. Speech at Penicuik, 25 March 1880 80. W. E. Gladstone. Speech at Loanhead, 22 March 1880 81. W. E. Gladstone. Article in The Nineteenth Century, September, 1878

4. Ireland

82. John Bright. Speech at Dublin, 30 October 1866 83. John Bright. Speech in the House of Commons, 1 April 1868 84. W. E. Gladstone. Speech in the House of Commons, 8 April 1886 85. W. E. Gladstone. Speech in the House of Commons, 17 February 1888

Part V. The New Liberalism

1. The Philosophy of State Interference

86. T. H. Green. Liberal Legislation or Freedom of Contract. 1881 87. Herbert Spencer. The Coming Slavery. 1884 88. D. G. Ritchie. The Principles of State Interference. 1891 89. J. A. Hobson. The Crisis of Liberalism. 1909 90. L. T. Hobhouse. Liberalism. 1911

2. The Extension of Democracy

91. Herbert Samuel. Liberalism. 1902 92. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman. Speech at Plymouth, 7 June 1907 93. D. Lloyd George. Speech at Newcastle, 9 October 1909 94. H. H. Asquith. Speech at the Albert Hall, 10 December 1909 95. L. T. Hobhouse. Liberalism. 1911

3. Social Reform

96. Joseph Chamberlain. Speech at Hull, 5 August 1885 97. Joseph Chamberlain. Speech at Warrington, 8 September 1885 98. W. E. Gladstone. Speech at Saltney, 26 October 1889 99. Lord Rosebery. Speech at Chesterfield, 16 December 1901 100. Winston S. Churchill. Speech at Glasgow, 11 October 1906 101. D. Lloyd George. Speech at Swansea, 1 October 1908 102. L. T. Hobhouse. Liberalism. 1911 103. Manchester Guardian, leading article. 1912

4. The Government and the National Economy

104. H. H. Asquith. Speech at Cinderford, 8 October 1903 105. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman. Speech at Bolton, 15 October 1903 106. D. Lloyd George. Speech at Bedford, 11 October 1913 107. D. Lloyd George. Speech at Middlesbrough, 8 November 1913 108. L. T. Hobhouse. Liberalism. 1911

5. Imperialism and the Boer War

109. Sir William Harcourt. Speech in West Monmouthshire, 31 May 1899 110. J. L. Hammond. ‘Colonial and Foreign Policy’ in Liberalism and the Empire, 1900 111. J. A. Hobson. Imperialism. 1902 112. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman. Speech at Stirling, 26 October 1901

6. Armaments

113. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman. Speech at the Albert Hall, 21 December 1905 114. William Byles. Speech in the House of Com mons, 28 February 1907 115. Sir E. Grey. Speech in the House of Commons, 29 March 1909 116. Sir E. Grey. Speech in the House of Commons, 13 March 1911 117. Sir J. Brunner. Speech at the 35th Annual Meeting of the National Liberal Federation, 26 November 1913

7. Foreign Policy

118. Debate in the House of Commons, 22 July 1909

(a) J. M. Robertson (b) Arthur Ponsonby

119. Sir E. Grey. Speech in the House of Commons, 27 November 1911 120. Debate in the House of Commons, 14 December 1911

(a) Josiah Wedgwood (b) J. G. Swift MacNeill

121. Manchester Guardian, leading article, 1 August 1914 122. Sir E. Grey. Speech in the House of Commons, 3 August 1914

Part VI. Liberalism After 1918

1. The End of Laissez-Faire

123. J. M. Keynes. The End of Laissez-Faire, 1926 124. Britain’s Industrial Future, the Report of the Liberal Industrial Inquiry, 1928 125. J. M. Keynes and H. D. Henderson. Can Lloyd George Do It? 1929 126. Sir William Beveridge. Full Employment in a Free Society, 1944

2. The League and the Peace

127. Viscount Grey of Fallodon. The League of Nations, May 1918 128. Gilbert Murray. The League of Nations and the Democratic Idea, 1918 129. Manchester Guardian, leading article, 24 June 1919 130. J. M. Keynes. The Economic Consequences of the Peace, December 1919 131. D. Lloyd George. Speech at London, 7 November 1927 132. Philip Kerr. The Outlawry of War, a paper read to the R.I.I.A., 13 November 1928 133. The Liberal Way. A survey of Liberal Policy, published by the National Liberal Federation, 1934

Epilogue

134. J. M. Keynes. Am I a Liberal? An address to the Liberal Summer School at Cambridge, 1925

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