Public and Private Doctrine
Subtitle: Essays in British History Presented to Maurice Cowling
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 369
ISBN-13: 9780521522175
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1700 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History: World; History; History - General History; United Kingdom, Great Britain; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; Great Britain--History; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General
First sentence: In the most directly polemical of his books, Mill and Liberalism (1963), Maurice Cowling described Mill as 'a proselytizer of genius: the ruthless denigrator of existing positions, the systematic propagator of a new moral purpose'.