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Chesterton Cecil. Gladstonian Ghosts
Gladstonian Ghosts
Table of 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
Footnote
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Cecil Chesterton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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SOME MATERIALS AND A POSSIBILITY.
And yet, I fear, we shall have to accept the Whigs as the lesser of two evils. At least their offences will in the main be negative, while the victory of the Nonconformists means a period of legislation so disastrous that you and I and all advanced reformers will be obliged to cling to the House of Lords as our only bulwark against the appalling flood of reaction. For some time the Nonconformists have been clamouring for the repeal of the admirable Education Acts of 1902-3. They have now begun to clamour for the repeal of the Licensing Act as well. Now, quite apart from the merits of these measures, it is as clear as daylight that all progress will be impossible if every government devotes its time and energies to repealing the measures of its predecessor. This disastrous precedent will be but the first-fruit of a Dissent-driven ministry. Meanwhile our refreshments, our amusements, even our religious observances will be subjected to silly sectarian taboos. Social reform will be hopelessly neglected, while we may have to face a revival of the foolish agitation in favour of Church Disestablishment which even Mr. Chamberlain’s marvellous genius for electioneering could not persuade the country to take very seriously in the eighties.
