"I was struck in reading Karl Marx's new work by the extent to which he fetches his materials from England. It is a remarkable book, as the Koran of the new socialists."

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Historians from EnglandMembers of the Parliament of the United KingdomBritish peersUniversity of Oxford facultyNon-fiction authors from the United Kingdom
Original Language: English

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Letter to William Ewart Gladstone on Marx's Das Kapital (17 November 1873), quoted in J. N. Figgis and R. V. Laurence (eds.), Selections from the Correspondence of the First Lord Acton, Vol. I (1917), p. 169