W. H. Mallock

William Hurrell Mallockin konservatismin klassikkoteos Aristokratia ja evoluutio (1898) avaa näkymän niin 1800-luvun lopun sosiologian tilaan kuin viktoriaanisten ideologioiden valtakamppailuunkin: konservatiivin oli hyvä tuntea sosialismin opit ajalta, jolloin työväenliike alkoi vallata sijaa myöhäisviktoriaanisen Englannin poliittisessa kulttuurissa. Samoin sosialistin oli hyvä tietää konservatiivin ajattelutapa. Tärkeintä kuitenkin oli tietää, ketkä todella olivat edistyksen moottoreita, kapitalistitko vaiko työläiset. Vanha aksiooma 'tunne itsesi' täydentyy Mallockilla machiavellistisesti aksioomalla 'tunne vihollisesi'. Rautarouva Thatcher omaksui sen, kun Mallockin teoksista otettiin uuskonservatismin huumassa 1980-luvulla uusintapainoksia.Mallockin teoksesta lukija saa selkeän käsityksen siitä, mitkä konservatismin periaatteet olivat, sillä hän ryöpytti tasa-arvosta, vallan- ja tulonjaosta ja tuotantovälineiden valtiollistamisesta unelmoijia. Hän terävöitti antimarxilaista käsitystä kapitalistisesta tuotantojärjestelmästä ja löysi harvainvallalle niin rajuja perusteluja, että ne ovat tyrmistyttäneet sosialisteja 1800-1900-lukujen vaihteesta näihin päiviin. Niiden purevuus ei jätä ketään poliittisista aatteista kiinnostunutta kylmäksi. Tieteen historian tutkija voi lukea Mallockia syntymässä olevan yhteiskuntatieteen kritiikkinä: hän pyrki palauttamaan Herbert Spencerin evolutionistisen sosiologian ja Karl Marxin historiallisen materialismin lainalaisuudet ja muut ajan suuret teoriat maan pinnalle analysoimalla läheltä niitä voimia, jotka käytännössä yhteiskuntaa liikuttivat niin talouselämässä kuin politiikassakin. Hän osoitti, miten merkittävä 'edistyksen' tekijä suhteellisen pieni joukko poikkeuksellisen kyvykkäitä ja tehokkaita yksilöitä historiassa on.

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William Hurrell Mallock (7 February 1849 - 2 April 1923) was an English novelist and economics writer. A nephew of the historian Froude, he was educated privately and then at Balliol College, Oxford. He won the Newdigate Prize in 1872 for his poem The Isthmus of Suez and took a second class in the final classical schools in 1874, securing his Bachelor of Arts degree from Oxford University. Mallock never entered a profession, though at one time he considered the diplomatic service. He attracted considerable attention by his satirical novel, largely a symposium like Plato's Republic, The New Republic (1877), conceived while he was a student at Oxford, in which he introduced characters easily recognized as such prominent individuals as Benjamin Jowett, Matthew Arnold, Violet Fane, Thomas Carlyle, and Thomas Henry Huxley. Although the book was not well received by critics at first, it did cause instant scandal, particularly concerning the portrait of literary scholar Walter Pater: His Pater's] first main work, Studies in the History of the Renaissance was published in 1873. Over the next three or four years it became the focus of considerable hostility towards Pater, principally reviewers objected to its amoral hedonism. Moreover, Pater was the subject of a cruel satire in W. H. Mallock's The New Republic which was published in Belgravia in 1876-7 and in book form in 1877. He appeared there as 'Mr. Rose'-an effete, impotent, sensualist with a perchant for erotic literature and beautiful young men. In the second edition of the Renaissance the 'Conclusion' was removed, partly in response to the public ridicule, but mainly because of pressure brought to bear on Pater within Oxford by figures such as Benjamin Jowett. In particular, the discovery of his 'relationship' with William Money Hardinge, a Balliol undergraduate, threatened Pater with a sexual scandal. Mallock's book appeared during the competition for the Oxford Professorship of Poetry and played a role in convincing Pater to remove himself from consideration. A few months later Pater published what may have been a subtle riposte: "A Study of Dionysus: The Spiritual Form of Fire and Dew."Mallock's New Republic was an essential book to Ronald Knox], perhaps his favourite work of secular literature outside the classics"His keen logic and gift for acute exposition and criticism were displayed in later years both in fiction and in controversial works. In a series of books dealing with religious questions he insisted on dogma as the basis of religion and on the impossibility of founding religion on purely scientific data. In Is Life Worth Living? (1879) and the satirical novel The New Paul and Virginia (1878) he attacked positivist theories 17] 18] and defended the Roman Catholic Church; 19] 20] 21] 22] one of his uncles, Hurrell Froude, had been a founder of the Oxford Movement. In a volume on the intellectual position of the Church of England, Doctrine and Doctrinal Disruption (1900), he advocated the necessity of a strictly defined creed. Later volumes on similar topics were Religion as a Credible Doctrine (1903) and The Reconstruction of Belief (1905). He also authored articles, being a frequent contributor to many newspapers and magazines, including The Forum, National Review, Public Opinion, Contemporary Review, and Harper's Weekly. One in particular, directed against Thomas Huxley's agnosticism, appeared in the April 1889 issue of The Fortnightly Review, 23] being Mallock's response to a controversy between, among others, Huxley and the Bishop of Peterborough. 24] He published several works on economics, directed against radical and socialist 26] theories: Social Equality (1882), Property and Progress (1884), Labor and the Popular Welfare (1893), Classes and Masses (1896), Aristocracy and Evolution (1898), and A Critical Examination of Socialism (1908) - and later visited the United States in order to deliver a series of lectures on the subject: ....