The book The Conservative Principle in Our Literature ... was written by author Williams, William, 1862- Here you can read free online of The Conservative Principle in Our Literature ... book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Conservative Principle in Our Literature ... a good or bad book?
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It is possible that the same dangerous ascendency of passion may be fostered, where we should have been slow to suspect it, by the ultraism of some good men among the social reformers of our time. Wilberforce was, in the judgment of Mackintosh, the very model of a reformer, because he united an earnestness that never flagged with a sweetness that never failed. There are good men that have nothing of this latter trait. Amid the best intentions there is occasionally in the benev- olent projects e...ven of this day a species of Jack Cade- ism, if we may be allowed the expression, enlisted in the service of reform. It seems the very opposite of the character of Wilberforce, nourishes an acridity and 28 THE CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLE violence of temper that appears to delight in repelling, and seeks to enkindle feeling by wild exaggeration and personal denunciation ; raves in behalf of good with the very spirit of evil, and where it cannot convince assent, would extort submission. Even truth itself when ad- ministered at a scalding heat, cannot benefit the re- cipient ; and the process is not safe for the hands of the administrator himself.
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