"Liberty and Tyranny" by Francis W. Hirst

Full title: Liberty and Tyranny by Francis W. Hirst. Special edition for the Members of the Classics of Liberty Library. Published in London by Duckworth in 1935.

In like new condition.

From the publisher:

"After the Great War we awoke with a shock to see liberty and democracy everywhere threatened, affronted, challenged, assaulted. Since then we have seen great nations - under the influence, no doubt, of defeat or depression or despair - deliberately vote away their freedom, and consign themselves to the tender mercies of a dictatorship based upon force and maintained by terror.

"Few thinkers of the period between the twentieth century's world wars had as realistic a grasp of the dangerous political climate as Francis Wrigley Hirst. Fewer still sounded the alarm as urgently. Astonished by blindness to the perils developing in Germany and Italy and even more so by peers' admiration of the Soviet Union, where mass murder was openly carried out, Hirst published, in 1935, Liberty and Tyranny. He expresses his motivation in these words:

"Believing, then that liberty is the most precious of human possessions, and that a full and satisfying mea-sure of personal freedom can only be enjoyed by a free citizen with a voice and a share in the government of his own country, I felt that the time had come for a reasoned defence of political and civil liberty.

"This classic, grounded in knowledge of history and economics, reverberates with Hirst's admiration of Milton, Locke, Mill, Lord Acton, and other champions of freedom and remains a compelling statement. Its review of the growth of political liberty in England is followed by an analysis of tyranny, "a weed that may grow in any age." The second part of the book presents essays on freedom of thought and discussion and includes a chapter on freedom of speech in America."

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