English Character And English Freedom Depend Comparatively Little On The Form Which The Constitution Assumes At Westminster. A Centralised Democracy May Be As Tyrannical As An Absolute Monarch; And If The Vigour Of The Nation Is To Continue Unimpaired, Each Individual, Each Family, Each District, Must Preserve As Far As Possible Its Independence, Its Self-completeness, Its Powers And Its Privilege To Manage Its Own Affairs And Think Its Own Thoughts.

-James Anthony Froude

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English Character And English Freedom Depend Comparatively

James Anthony Froude

English Character And English Freedom Depend Comparatively Little On The Form Which The Constitution Assumes At Westminster. A Centralised Democracy May Be As Tyrannical As An Absolute Monarch; And If The Vigour Of The Nation Is To Continue Unimpaired, Each Individual, Each Family, Each District, Must Preserve As Far As Possible Its Independence, Its Self-completeness, Its Powers And Its Privilege To Manage Its Own Affairs And Think Its Own Thoughts.

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Character

Thinking

Self

Do You Not Think That Sometimes When Matters Are At The Worst With Us, When We Appear To Have Done All Which We Ourselves Can Do, Yet All Has Been Unavailing, And We Have Only Shown We Cannot, Not We Will Not, Help Ourselves; That Often Just Then Something Comes, Almost As If Supernaturally, To Settle For Us, As If Our Guardian Angel Took Pity On Our Perplexities, And Then At Last Obtained Leave To Help Us? And If It Be So, Then What Might Only Be A Coincidence Becomes A Call Of Providence, A Voice From Heaven, A Command.

Angel

Thinking

Voice