Because he believed that he was fundamentally still a classical English liberal and wasn't quite aware of how far he had moved away from it.
چون او معتقد بود اصولاً همچنان یک لیبرال انگلیسی کلاسیک است و کاملاً نمی‌دانست که چقدر از آن فاصله گرفته است.