Novanglus

This, the first installment of "Novanglus" runs the whole gamut of the age-long liberal-conservative, Whig-Tory, radical-reactionary arguments. The Tories insisted that the political principles of the colonial Whigs might be "all right in theory but wouldn't work in practice." Novanglus replied that this was a most unscientific remark; if a thing didn't work out in practice it was because it wasn't all right in theory, and that as far as his observation of the English political laboratory w...