“The modern state is the distinctive product of a unique civilization. But it is a product which is still in the making, and a part of the process is a struggle between old and new principles of social order.”

—  Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse

Source: Liberalism (1911), Chapter I, Before Liberalism, p. 9.

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