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What was Harold Innis's take on politics?
he later recoiled from participating in party politics, denouncing partisans like Underhill as "hot gospellers".
Are there any other interesting aspects about this article?
He has been called the radical conservative of his day.
Why was he called that?
Innis distrusted political "solutions" imported from elsewhere.

Question: where were they imported from?
Self-contained rewrite: where were political "solutions" imported from?