Hobhouse traces liberalism from the old order it rose against through its elements of civil, fiscal, personal, social, economic and political liberty, the movement of theory from Bentham to Mill and Gladstone, and the limits of laissez-faire, before setting out an organic liberalism in which the state guarantees the conditions of a good life.
A founding text of social or ‘new’ liberalism, still read by anyone interested in political ideas. Download the free EPUB.