Gladstonian Ghosts
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Excerpt from Gladstonian GhostsAs a philosopher you are able to see what no practical statesman on either side of the House seems likely to perceive - that social and economic politics are the only kind of politics that really matter, and that the chicken in-the-pot ideal of Henri Quatre is after all the primary aim of all states manship. Three centuries of anarchic commercialism have left us a legacy of pauperism, disease, famine, physical degeneracy and Spiritual demoralization, which in another century will infallibly destroy us altogether if we cannot in the mean time destroy them. And I t...
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- GLADSTONIAN GHOSTS,
- CONTENTS.
- DEDICATION.
- LIBERALISM AND THE ZEITGEIST.
- “WHAT PORTION HAVE WE IN DAVID?”
- NATIONAL PENRHYNISM.
- “MILITARISM AND AGGRESSION”
- THE FETISH OF FREE TRADE.
- TOWARDS ANARCHISM.
- OUR BRITISH MOSLEMS.
- “RETRENCHMENT AND REFORM.”
- SOCIAL RECONSTRUCTION.
- SOME MATERIALS AND A POSSIBILITY.
- FOOTNOTES:
- TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE
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