Compulsion may be necessary for the purposes of external order, but it adds nothing to the inward life that is the true being of a man. - Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

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Compulsion may be necessary for the purposes of external order, but it adds nothing to the inward life that is the true being of a man.

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About Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse (8 September 1864 – 21 June 1929) was a British liberal politician and sociologist, who has been considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism. His works, alongside that of writers such as T.H. Green and John A. Hobson, occupy a seminal position within the canon of New Liberalism.

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Alternative Names: L. T. Hobhouse

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