Excerpt from Liberty and Liberalism: A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, With Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise and the Rights of Property I have then shown that, from the earliest times in the regular history of England, the principle of individual freedom was the one which, paramount to all others, charac terised the greatest of England's reforms; but that, in the present day, that time-honoured principle appears to have lost its charm, and the political title Liberalism, which previously served as its synonym, is being gradually per verted to the service of a cause, which must, sooner or later, be wholly destructive of that very liberty, from which it derived its existence as a political term. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.