This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...but the facts were so obvious and the need for action so great that he was soon surrounded by an ardent band of co-workers, the most important of whom were Charles Kingslcy, Archdeacon Hare, William fztiil Ludlow and Thomas Hughes,1 while Robertson of Brighton, although not in sympathy with the socialism of these men, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...but the facts were so obvious and the need for action so great that he was soon surrounded by an ardent band of co-workers, the most important of whom were Charles Kingslcy, Archdeacon Hare, William fztiil Ludlow and Thomas Hughes,1 while Robertson of Brighton, although not in sympathy with the socialism of these men, held closely to their views in other respects. This group had been considering for some time the best method of approach to the workingmen, when the revolution of 1848 on the Continent and the renewed activity of the Chartists at home gave them an opportunity which they at once seized. To the Chartists, disappointed after the fiasco on Kennington Common, Kingsley came with his appeal of April I2th.s This was followed on May 6th by the first number of Politics for the People to which Maurice, Kingsley, Ludlow, Archdeacon Hare, Professor Conington, Archbishop Whately and Sir Arthur Helps were important contributors.5 Politics for the People (1848) was far from being a Chartist publication; it was almost conservative. Physical Force Chartism was denounced even to the extent of condemning monster meetings, whether lawful or not, as senseless and criminal, and "the demand for universal suffrage by men who had neither education or moral self-government to qualify for the vote " 7 was vigorously opposed. 1 Scligman, "Owen and the Christian Socialists," Political Science Quarterly, vol. i, pp. 221, 239. 'Rrooke, Life and Letters of Frederick W. Robertson, chap. ix. 'Appendix VI; Charles Kingsley, vol. i, pp. 156, 157. 4 Charles Kingsley, vol. i, p. 162; Maurice. Life of Frederick D. Maurice, vol. i, p. 474. Seligman, op. cit., p. 226. Life of Maurice, vol. i, p. 472. 'Charles Kingsley, vol. i, p. 162. The relationship of such men a...
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