Excerpt from The Heresy of Democracy: A Study in the History of Government
This study, I imagine, betrays its academic origin. In it I have drawn largely on some lectures of mine already published: the Riddell Memorial Lectures delivered in the University of Durham in 1944; the William Ainslie Memorial Lecture delivered at St Martin-in-the-Fields in 1945; and a lecture at the University of Natal in 1949. I acknowledge my indebtedness to these Foundations.
I am in much greater debt to the University of Oxford, whose teaching to my generation fifty years ago I have taken the liberty to criticize. I know, of course, that I owe this very liberty to it and that this gift is all that matters in University education. And to none do I owe more in this way than to Mr H. A. L.Fisher, whose name I have used to point a moral which he himself, I think, would have been the first to draw today.
Much of the ground over which I have wandered in the first part of this essay has now been more seriously covered by Mr J. L. Talmon in his Origins of Total Democracy. I have not found occasion to refer to his work, partly because I had already wandered far before it was published, but mainly because the essayist cannot travel with the scholar; he can only salute him at a distance.
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