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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
Political grouping represented in the text by Macaulay, whose views on state interference are compared to Benthamite views.
In regard to interference by law with the liberty of individual citizens, it is probable that a Benthamite Radical, such as John Mill conceived himself to be, differed little from a Whig, such as Macaulay, who certainly did not consciously subscribe to the Benthamite creed, and it is probable that the late Lord Salisbury (then Lord Robert Cecil) would not on this Edition:
the Whig reformers of 1832 were unlike the democrats or the Tories of 1785.
In 1832, it may be said, passionate enthusiasm for parliamentary reform and all the innovations to which it gave birth, displaced, as it were, in a moment the obstinate toryism which for nearly half a century had been the accepted creed, if not of the whole nation, yet assuredly of the governing classes;