The Voice from the Hearth-Rug
Alan Ryan: The Cambridge Apostles, 28 October 1999
The Cambridge Apostles 1820-1914: Liberalism, Imagination and Friendship in British Intellectual and Professional Life
by W.C. Lubenow.
Cambridge, 458 pp., £35, October 1998,0 521 57213 4 Show More
by W.C. Lubenow.
Cambridge, 458 pp., £35, October 1998,
“... and social force it has been for the past seventy-five years. How did it happen? On that question, Lubenow is wisely silent. He quotes Sir Donald MacAlister’s claim that ‘the voice that issues from the hearth-rug on Saturday night has gone through all the earth, its sound to the world’s end. It speaks in Senates though men know it not, it controls ... ”
