Robert Southey
historical figure · 1 work · 5 mentions · 13 anchored passages
Southey · Mr. Southey · his biographer Southey
in the texts
Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Poet and writer quoted (1829) as one of three men of genius distrustful of laissez faire.
“Moral evils,” writes Southey (1829), “are of [man’s] own making;
And this prevention was, in Southey’s judgment, to be effected by the moral authority of the Church and the action of the State.
Turn now for illustrations of the protest against the dominant individualism of the day to the language of three men of genius who agreed in nothing but in their common distrust of laissez faire, and in their conviction that some great exertion of the authority of the State was needed for the cure of the diseases which afflicted the commonwealth.