Middle Class Rebellion
ARLIAMENT won the Civil War not because of popular support, but because of the financial strength of the bourgeoisie, and of the military genius and moral force of middle-class leaders like Cromwell. It was under the wing of Parliament that radical Englishmen developed extreme democratic theory. It was a Puritan Parliamentarian, Milton, who wrote a defence of free speech and a free press which is still quoted by crusaders for liberty. In short, when the English middle class broke with the king who had been their representative and spokesman, they did so in the name of the people’s liberties. It was a group of deeply conservative and respectable bourgeois citizens who showed conclu--sively that a king was not demi-god, but a man like anybody else-for at least like other men, he had a head that could be cut off.-(Professor F. L. Wood, 2YA, August 18.) ,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 5
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148Middle Class Rebellion New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 115, 5 September 1941, Page 5
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