ESSAYS IN PERSUASION

PART IV

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philosophy of economic life, our notions of whatis reasonable and what is tolerable; and we havedone this without changing our technique orour copybook maxims. Hence our tears andtroubles.

A party programme must be developed in itsdetails, day by day, under the pressure and thestimulus of actual events; it is useless to defineit beforehand, except in the most general terms.But if the Liberal Party is to recover its forces,it must have an attitude, a philosophy, a direc-tion. I have endeavoured to indicate my ownattitude to politics, and I leave it to others toanswer, in the light of what I have said, thequestion with which I began—Am I a Liberal?