ABSTRACT
A product of the enormous disillusionment with Utopian politics, her new political edifice, although superlatively clean and well-lighted, seems likely to be exceedingly difficult to heat. The effect of the celebrations of the political motive is to set almost beyond doubt the appropriateness of a house of politics standing in solitary grandeur in the island of its own purity. The "pure" political theorists, or post-political liberals, have much in common with writers whose politics is theologically oriented seems at first glance unlikely. The new-style house may never go up, old-style humanitarianism may never go out—but the likelihood is strong that not before changes occur in the literary situation of politics will any genuinely new Liberal epoch begin. The notion of the politician as a follower rather than as a leader comes, of course, from Edmund Burke.
