ABSTRACT
The hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the liberal movement. The traditional order, which was pregnant with all sorts of wars, civil, foreign, religious, and domestic, was to be relaxed precisely for the sake of peace. When people have conceded everything that anybody clamors for, everyone will be satisfied. Swimming in the holiday pond of a universal tolerance, people may confidently call their souls their own. So, all grievances being righted and everyone quite free, people hoped in the nineteenth century to remain forever in unchallengeable enjoyment of people's private property, their private religions, and their private morals. But there was a canker in this rose. The dearest friend and ally of the liberal was the reformer; perhaps even his own inmost self was a prepotent Will, not by any means content with being let alone, but aspiring to dominate everything.
