Swearing by Phrenology
John Vincent, 3 February 2000
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Liberalism
by Conrad Russell.
Duckworth, 128 pp., £12.95, September 1999,0 7156 2947 6 Show More
by Conrad Russell.
Duckworth, 128 pp., £12.95, September 1999,
“... supremely, and it cannot readily be transplanted elsewhere. In Russell’s version of liberalism, John Stuart Mill takes a central place. This may be the standard view, but it is not without its distortions. Historically, as Russell admits, liberalism came first, and Mill’s path from marginality to central cultural icon came much later. The Mill of On ... ”