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It was accepted among romantics of all shades that 'the folk', i.e. normally the pre-industrial peasant or craftsman, exemplified the uncorrupted virtues and that its language, song, story and custom was the true repository of the soul of the people.

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The first thing which strikes anyone who attempts to survey the development of the arts in this period of dual revolution is their extra-ordinary flourishing state.

"The Saint-Simonians, less given to communal experiments, never ceased their search for an enlightened despot who might carry out their proposals, and for some time believed they had found him in the improbable figure of Mohammed AIi, the ruler of Egypt."

Let it not be supposed that the men who held such views were mere special pleaders for the vested interest of businessmen. They were men who believed, with considerable historical justification at this period, that the way forward for humanity was through capitalism.

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British movement created a dense network of institutions for working-class self-education and political education, the 'mechanics' institutes', Owenite 'Halls of Science' and others.

The most elementary functions of the liberal state, such as the efficient assessment and collection of taxes by a body of salaried officials or the maintenance of a regular nationally organized constabulary, would have seemed beyond the wildest dreams of most pre-revolutionary absolutisms.

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