"The young were taught in sixth form and university all the fallacies in John Stuart Mill's Essay on Liberty and were encouraged to believe that T. H. Green's definition of positive freedom was superior. Gladstonian liberals declared that socialist plans to nationalize industry and control production infringed personal freedom. But Green argued that so far from diminishing freedom such measures could increase it. A few people's freedom would be curtailed but vastly more people would now be made free to do things that hitherto they had been unable to do. The sum of freedom would increase. "Freedom for an Oxford don," it was said, "is a very different freedom for an Egyptian peasant.""
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Noel Annan, Our Age: Portrait of a Generation (1990), p. 276
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T. H. Green
Thomas Hill Green (7 April 1836 – 26 March 1882), known as , was an English philosopher, political radical and temperance reformer, and a member of the movement. He was one of the thinkers behind the philosophy of social liberalism.
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