"Excuse me," continued Evgenie Pavlovitch hotly, "I don't say a word against
liberalism.
Liberalism is not a sin, it is a necessary part of a great whole, which whole would collapse and fall to pieces without it.
If there was a reason for his preferring liberal to conservative views, which were held also by many of his circle, it arose not from his considering
liberalism more rational, but from its being in closer accordance with his manner of life.
And all this was found in Alexander I; all this had been prepared by innumerable so-called chances in his life: his education, his early
liberalism, the advisers who surrounded him, and by Austerlitz, and Tilsit, and Erfurt.
'
Liberalism,' continued the anonymous journalist, 'is of too free and sound a growth,' etc.
But he had left the army, so that his reputation for gallantry mainly depended now on his fighting
Liberalism in the House of Commons.
By this, the long wished-for opportunity was offered to "True" Socialism of confronting the political movement with the Socialist demands, of hurling the traditional anathemas against
liberalism, against representative government, against bourgeois competition, bourgeois freedom of the press, bourgeois legislation, bourgeois liberty and equality, and of preaching to the masses that they had nothing to gain, and everything to lose, by this bourgeois movement.
I despise the cant of modern
Liberalism; but it's not the less true that I have, all my life, protested against the inhuman separation of classes in England.
The despotism and hatred of
Liberalism which animated the Continental Governments had had the effect of driving to our shores a number of men who might have made excellent citizens were they not soured by the recollection of all that they had undergone.
Miss Bartlett's recent
liberalism oozed away at the question.
It is impossible to doubt but that the extreme
liberalism of these countries must ultimately lead to good results.
At the outbreak of the Revolution Burke was already sixty, and the inevitable tendency of his mind was away from the enthusiastic
liberalism which had so strongly moved him in behalf of the Americans and the Hindoos.
But modern
Liberalism rashly made war upon the prosperous government of the Bourbons, by means of ideas which, should they triumph, would be the ruin of France and of the Liberals themselves.