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Chapter 2 highlights the heterogeneity of early liberalism, demonstrating the ways that many liberals from 1830-1880 laid the groundwork for key but often conflicting ideas and attempted to work out the tensions.

Liberalism a practice of politics which emerged in the 19th century in response to the tumult of revolution and the onset of industrial capitalism. Fawcett identifies 4 guiding principles: the inevitability of conflict, the possibility of progress, suspicion of power, and respect for individuals