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Article: Lord Acton and the Lost Cause.(the English hisotrian Lord Acton was an outspoken supporter of the Confederacy during America's Civil War)
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- January 1, 2000
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Photographs of John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, first Baron Acton, show a severe, imposing man dressed in black, with a beard that was extravagant even for a Victorian sage: an incurably dusty figure who would speak to us today, if at all, in a forgotten tongue. In appearance and sometimes in style, he resembles nothing so much as the stereotype of the comically shocked father of the bride in a Hollywood bust-and-bustle drama. Although historians of Victorian England know him as a leading theorist of liberty and liberalism, Lord Acton is at best dimly remembered by most readers for the aphorism that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unlike ...
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