His historical writings include the essay "Democracy in Europe" and the lecture "The History of Freedom in Antiquity."
His historical writings include the essay "Democracy in Europe" and the lecture "The History of Freedom in Antiquity." He joined his teacher, Dollinger, in a failed effort at recruiting bishops to the anti-infallibility side at the First Vatican Council, and he succeeded Cardinal Newman as editor of The Rambler but was forced out forr his secular view of history, which he later used to organize the first edition of the Cambridge Modern History. FTP, name this British political theorist who formulated a Catholic-based form of liberalism and coined the maxim "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
His historical writings include the essay "Democracy in Europe" and the lecture "The History of Freedom in Antiquity."
John Emerich Edward Dalberg (Lord) {Acton}, 1st Baron Acton