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Liberty, Classic and Romantic
Hazlitt, Henry | June 18, 1930 issue

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The article critically appraises the book "Liberty," by Everett Dean Martin. Perhaps the most valuable contribution of the present volume is its analysis of the confusion and inconsistency among present-day liberals. Martin defines a liberal as "a rationalist who walks by faith in the wisdom of the irrational majority." Because the liberalism of today stems partly from the Renaissance and Voltaire, and partly from Rousseau, most liberals are not quite sure whether they are champions of culture or of nature, whether they are advocates of reason or of instinct.

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BOOKS & reading; LIBERTY (Book); MARTIN, Everett Dean; LIBERALISM; RENAISSANCE; SOCIOLOGY literature
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