ENGLISH FREEDOM
At the Bedford College for ' Women, Dr. Edmund Gosse being in the chair, M. Elio Halevy,. Professor at the E&le Libre des Sciences Politique.?, Paris, in a lecture upon "English Freedom as Understood by a French Observer," gave u shrewd and searching analysis of English liberty. At the close bevquoted iv judgment which he had hecud expressed before the war, to the effect'that Franca had, liberty but no order, Germany had order but no liberty, Russia had neither oi'der nor liberty, England had both order ami liberty. "In England," said M. Halevy, "I see order founded upon liberty;' liberty evolving into order, and the two corner-stones of English liberty, as I understand it, are tho party system. and what I have called civic asceticism." The English idea of liberty was not the liberty of the voluptary, tho epicure. or even tho artist; it covered, the limitation of the liberty of tho individual for the good of the community. Wherever a body of Englishmen might be thrown together they always spontaneously evolvod a system of order and government which, while allowing all possible liberty to tile individual, was based ultimately upon the common weaL
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 212, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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195ENGLISH FREEDOM Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 212, 2 June 1919, Page 5
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