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Mithalwen · 04-04-2011, 06:08 PM

Social justice was also a factor in the "one nation conservatism" proposed by Benjamin Disraeli

And if catholicism makes him conservative de facto, many in the UK would assume that his being an academic and writer would associate him with the left - since the "intelligentsia" and "literati" are often thus aligned but I doubt it was so much the case in Oxford in the first half of the last century. Anyway I don't think I can significantly improve on what I have already said.

04-04-2011, 06:08 PM	#14
Mithalwen Pilgrim Soul Join Date: May 2004 Location: watching the wonga-wonga birds circle... Posts: 9,461	Social justice was also a factor in the "one nation conservatism" proposed by Benjamin Disraeli And if catholicism makes him conservative de facto, many in the UK would assume that his being an academic and writer would associate him with the left - since the "intelligentsia" and "literati" are often thus aligned but I doubt it was so much the case in Oxford in the first half of the last century. Anyway I don't think I can significantly improve on what I have already said. __________________ “But Finrod walks with Finarfin his father beneath the trees in Eldamar.” Christopher Tolkien, Requiescat in pace Last edited by Mithalwen; 04-04-2011 at 06:18 PM.