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Smith, Bruce was born in 1851. 4th son of Win. Howard Smith of Melbourne.
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Liberty & Liberalism: A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterp
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The only major study and defense of Adam Smith-style liberalism in Australia, this 1887 work, a long-forgotten classic once again entering the spotlight, is, in the words of author BRUCE SMITH (1851-1937), an Australian lawyer and politician, "a protest against the growing tendency toward undue interference by the state, with individual liberty, private enterprise and the rights of property." Now considered one of the great overlooked intellectuals of the Victorian era, Smith here advocates government withdrawal from social and economic issues, seeing the solution to the misery of the world not in "the iron hand of an act of parliament" but in humanitarianism. With the debate about the proper role of government continues today, this remains a powerful argument for laissez-faire policies.
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An Liberty and Liberalism; A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. Spurious Liberalism--Modern Instances. "There is no surer way of drying up this great stream of self-help and self-reliance, than to teach the working classes that they should look, not so much to their own efforts, but to the state or the municipality."-- Professor Fawcett. "The popular cry now is for the state to override the man ; for legislation to supply the place of open competition and free personal action."-- Joseph Cowen. "Democracies should leave as little as possible for the state to do. Every citizen should prevent, as much as possible, any control over individual energy."--Bradlaugh. "It is proposed to mitigate or extirpate poverty by governmental regulation of industry and accumulation. The substitution of government direction for the play of individual action, and the attempt to secure by restriction what can better be secured by freedom. . Whatever savours of regulation and restriction is in itself had." -- Henry George. I HAVE already ventured to submit to my readers what I may term a theory of the growth of Liberalism in Great Britain, as generalised from what I conceive to be a broad and comprehensive study of that nation's political history. At the risk of seeming to repeat myself, I venture to shortly re-state that theory. Whatever may have been the condition of the English people, prior to the conquest of 1066, that important event at once plunged the whole oC the conquered population into a condition of absolute subjection to the Norman invaders. Whatever liberty the people had acquired and enjoyed, prior to that event, was, in fact, taken from them by the sudden accession of the new monarch, who, at once, assumed all the rights and powers incidental to the despotic position which he had secured by...
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- Liberty and Liberalism - a Protest Against The Growing Tendence Toward Undue Interference By the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise, and the Rights of Property
Bruce Smith
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Education
Studied at Wesley College, Melbourne. Finchley and Mitcham, England. Engaged in commerce in Melbourne, 1867-1872.
Career
Matriculated Melbourne University, 1873. Entered Inner Temple, London, 1874. Called to Bar, England, 1877.
Began practice in Melbourne, 1879.
Settled in Sydney, New South Wales, 1881. Elected to Legislative Assembly, 1882.
Retired from Bar temporarily, 1884-1888S, during which time filled position of Managing Directoi of Howard, Smith and Sons, Limited., shipowners. Returned to New South Wales Bar, 1888.
Re-entered New South Wales Parliament, and became colleague of Sir Henry Parkes, filling positions of Minister of Public Works and Colonial Treasurer successively, 188S-91.
Took an active part in advocating Australian Federation between 1890 and its accomplishment in 1900. Selected to represent Federalists on Financial Committee of three to report on probable additional cost of federation to the Australian States. Elected to first Federal Parliament same year, and sat in House of Representatives as Free Trader and Anti-Socialist to present time.
Opposed extreme aspects of White Australian policy, White Ocean legislation, European and British immigration restriction, compulsory arbitration.
Member of Federal Legislature. King’s Counsel, 1905. Member of Parliament.
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book
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Liberty & Liberalism: A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterp
(The only major study and defense of Adam Smith-style libe...)
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An Liberty and Liberalism; A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise
(This historic book may have numerous typos and missing te...)
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Liberty and Liberalism (Cis Classics)
(An excerpt from the beginning of the: PREFACE. THE foll...)
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Liberty and liberalism: a protest against the growing tendency toward undue ... [Hardcover]
(Lang:- English, Pages 711. Reprinted in 2015 with the hel...)
- Liberty and Liberalism - a Protest Against The Growing Tendence Toward Undue Interference By the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterprise, and the Rights of Property
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Liberty & Liberalism: A Protest Against the Growing Tendency Toward Undue Interference by the State, with Individual Liberty, Private Enterp
