HE WILL NEVER SUPPORT; LIBERALISM; “English liberalism had an aristocratic character: it was a liberalism of “gentlemen,” the liberalism of class. Such liberty as any man might claim for himself was not so much as dreamed here. To this day, there subsists this healthy and, at bottom, a-political aspect of liberalism: liberalism not as a politico-social ideology but as the requirement that, irrespective of the particular form of the political regime, the individual should enjoy a maximum of liberty, that the sphere of his privacy, of his personal private life, should be respected, that the interference of any extraneous and collective power therein should be avoided. In principle, this is an acceptable and positive aspect of liberalism,”
