Toryism
“Conservatism”
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Lectures on the Relation between Law and Public Opinion in England
The dominant conservative political creed in England, repeatedly acting as a counter-current to reform.
An ardent reformer of 1832 could as a “conservative” of 1838 mingle traditions inherited from old toryism with ideas derived from new and Benthamite liberalism.
The spirit of Benthamite liberalism, which in 1832 put an end to the reign of toryism, had developed slowly and gradually during a period of more than thirty years.
It is, in short, a force which may act either, as it does nowadays, in favour of innovation, or, as it did in the early part of the nineteenth century, in favour of conservatism.