Saints in Politics: The 'Clapham Sect' and the Growth of Freedom

This book gives a picture of an important religious reform group in action during the period of the French Revolution, Napoleon, and the Industrial Revolution. In this period of injustice and misery the British ruling classes, frightened by the excesses of the French Revolution, determined, at a time when economic life was changing at a rate unequalled for centuries, that existing laws and institutions should not change.

And yet from this time came the moral, philanthropic, and religious id...