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Bolingbroke, Fighting the Moneyed Interest

It is Bolingbroke the critic of a corrupt and venal society who has so appealed to the English Tories.  They are not concerned with Bolingbroke the philosopher.  If they care about religion they are apt to dismiss the Enlightenment Bolingbroke as an aberration explained by his sojourn in France.  What really matters and what enshrines […]

It is Bolingbroke the critic of a corrupt and venal society who has so appealed to the English Tories.  They are not concerned with Bolingbroke the philosopher.  If they care about religion they are apt to dismiss the Enlightenment Bolingbroke as an aberration explained by his sojourn in France.  What really matters and what enshrines Bolingbroke in the Tory Pantheon are his political writings and career, in which he rejects the new age of liberal individualism and the introduction of financial capitalism into English society and politics. ~Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke & His Circle

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