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Ernest Barker Quotes

1874–1960 England

Sir Ernest Barker FBA (23 September 1874 – 17 February 1960) was an English political scientist who served as Principal of King's College London from 1920 to 1927.

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The idea of the State is one which is little grasped in England.

Collectivism...demands expert government..."the aristocracy of talent" of which Carlyle wrote. The control of a State with powers so vast will obviously need an exceptional and exceptionally large aristocracy.

It has indeed been a feature common to the Evangelical and Catholic sections of the English Church—and, for that matter, a feature common to both with various Nonconformist societies, which in this respect have followed the same tradition and adopted similar methods—that they have all sought to make religion a general social force.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ernest Barker (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.