"It has indeed been a feature common to the Evangelical and Catholic sections of the English Church—and, for that matt…"

"The idea of the State is one which is little grasped in England."

"Collectivism...demands expert government..."the aristocracy of talent" of which Carlyle wrote. The control of a State…"

"All in all, we may say that Nonconformity served as a gathering ground of the various influences (religious, politica…"

"I am bothered today by the abstract intellectualism of those with whom I used to associate, and by the conventional l…"

"Yet, admirable though his books are, the fact remains that the man was bigger than his books. To think of Ernest Bark…"

"Whenever I see a row of poplars", the much-loved tutor Ernest Barker used to say in the rich Cheshire accent he guard…"

"It would be difficult to name another scholar whose books and articles have been and are to-day as widely read by uni…"

"It is clear that there are as many different languages as peoples in this island. The Scots, however, and the Welsh, …"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"