Government and the Governed
Date
1939
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
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Publisher
LONDON CHRISTOPHERS
Abstract
Description
T HIS spirited and challenging survey of the
course of political thought from the Renaissance
to the present age is the work of a young apostle
of democratic principles, who after winning philosophical
laurels in an O>d'ord College is now embarked on the
open sea of politics. A book on political philosophy
suffers no harm from such enlivening and contrasted
experiences. Wheu the College Don becomes Town
Councillor or parliamentary candidate the exchange is
not all loss. The fact that l\Ir. Crossman is not purely
academic gives to his work a sense of animation and
actuality often wanting to the nicely balanced treatise
of the philosophical recluse. A lively concern for the
happenings of to-day and to-mo1Tow lends meaning to
the thoughts and occurrences of the past. l\fr. Crossman
travels easily over a wide tract of time. If some of his
judgements may seem to need qualification, he has a
good eye for the general features of the landscape
and a gift for describing contemporary movements of
opinion and of disengaging those which are of special
moment.
Keywords
LONDON CHRISTOPHERS, GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNED, A HISTORY OF POLITICAL IDEAS AND POLITICAL PRACTICE