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Document from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy Philosophy of the 19thCentury grade entries in the bibliography language Englishabstract Those who have done me the honour of reading my previous writingswill probably receive no strong impression of novelty from the present volumefor the principles are those to which I have been working up during the greaterpart of my life and most of the practical suggestions have been anticipated byothers or by myself. There is novelty however in the fact of bringing themtogether and exhibiting them in their connection and also I believe in muchthat is brought forward in their support. Several of the opinions at allevents if not new are for the present as little likely to meet with generalacceptance as if they were. It seems to me however from various indicationsand from none more than the recent debates on Reform of Parliament that bothConservatives and Liberals if I may continue to call them what they still callthemselves have lost confidence in the political creeds which they nominallyprofess while neither side appears to have made any progress in providingitself with a better. Yet such a better doctrine must be possible not a merecompromise by splitting the difference between the two but something widerthan either which in virtue of its superior comprehensiveness might beadopted by either Liberal or Conservative without renouncing anything which hereally feels to be valuable in his own creed. When so many feel obscurely thewant of such a doctrine and so few even flatter themselves that they haveattained it any one may without presumption offer what his own thoughts andthe best that he knows of those of others are able to contribute towards itsformation. «
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