"The more a class is brought low, the greater its difficulty in rising again without assistance. For purposes of legislation the State has been exceedingly slow to accept this view."
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Chapter IV, "Laissez - Faire", p. 47.
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Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse
Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (8 September 1864 β 21 June 1929) was a British liberal politician and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, alongside that of writers such as T.H. Green and John A. Hobson, occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism.
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