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instance of this, This could be placed against a background
of the general decline of Liberalism since 1885 under
the blows of Socialian on the one hand3sand the
attraction of Conservation for the wealthy and aristocratic
on the other. The Liberale had loot heavily in the
urban constituencies, - especially in London and
Lancashire niece, 1885. `heir laicaez fare programme
of social reform appeared old fashioned in comparison
with the collectivist policies envisaged by Fabians,
Chnraborlainitoo or Liberal. Imperialists of the Haldane
mould, Gladatoniano felt that "true" Liberalism was
incompatible with Imperialism an displayed in the Boor
War, - "Men thoroughly imbued with the Gladotoniau
tradition shrink from the task of extinguishing two
Republicss however serious their quarrel with-Great
Britain, And it is in the criticism - and, if necessary,
the limitation
- of militant imperialism$ not in its
active forwarding, that the obvious miry ion, the real use
of Liberalism 1ioco"
(1)
Apart from ideoloCioa1-
(1) 2intionnl l eviow1 June 1900, flau'. }1an ; in ; ham, The declino
of LibOralise pp. 5604w p. 563.