Excerpt from John Thelwall: A Pioneer of Democracy and Social Reform in England During the French Revolution
Within the period extending from the American War to the present day, great changes have taken place in English political theory and practice. For a statesman of 1775, were he even a Whig, the notion of government was inseparable from oligarchic rule, was limited to matters strictly political, and dominated by considerations of expediency. A statesman of 1905, even if he is a Tory, accepts, or at any rate recognises, government by the people, and asserts the need not only of political but of economic and moral melioration; if he is a Liberal, along with the traditional empiricism of England, he sets down a rational ideal as a potent factor in the work of civilisation. Democracy, social reform, political idealism - such are the chief features which distinguish the politics of our time from those of the end of the eighteenth century.
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