Abstract

The Liberal Revival in England

The injection of new principles and policies accomplished by the brains and energy of a little group of politicians, intellectuals, and enlightened business men, loosely styled the New Liberals. The fruits of some two years of intensive inquiry into the economic situation have been garnered in a closely reasoned and well-documented report on "Britain's Industrial Future," which may be said to mark a new era of Liberalism. Primarily addressing themselves to the solution of the grave economic problems by non-political reforms in technique, organization, and finance, the reformers found themselves inevitably drawn into an abandonment of the older laissez-faire doctrines and policies associated with nineteenth-century Liberalism and a bold recognition of the many services which a modern progressive state must play in social-economic reconstruction.