English Poets And the National Ideal; Four Lectures
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The indispensable condition of a healthy patriotism lies in the opportunities afforded to each individual for a free development, independent of all external restrictions that will tend to hamper his natural growth, and the full exercise of all his natural functions both as regards himself and in his relations with his kind. His conception of social progress is governed by this principle. Much of Wordsworth's conservatism can be traced to his fear that changes which were hailed as an advance we...re really enslaving the people to the tyranny of wealth, that though the workman might gain in wages by his rush to the towns he lost in real individual inde- pendence and in the chance of developing his personality in its more intimate relationships. Similarly, his admira- tion for Fox was due to his feeling that Fox was the friend of the poor, and that to him no man's property was so ^ lb. p. 173. 2 lb. p. 258. 70 WORDSWORTH sacred as the property of the poor.i That statesman alone, he urged, could be successful who realized that the strength and health of the nation depended on the freedom and health and strength of the units that composed it, whose own love of his country had the same homely foundation as inspired the humblest patriot, and who devoted all his energies to fostering those conditions on which that patriotism might develop .
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