Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Leonard Hobhouse (British Sociologist)

Leonard Hobhouse (1864–1929,) fully Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse, was an English social philosopher and journalist. Considered one of the leading and earliest proponents of social liberalism, he tried to reconcile liberalism with collectivism in the interest of social progress.

Born in St Ives, Cornwall, Hobhouse was a Fellow of Merton College-Oxford (1894) before joining the Manchester Guardian (1897.)

Hobhouse became editor of the Sociological Review (1903,) and during the same period (1903–05,) he was secretary of the Free Trade Union and later political editor of Tribune (1906–07.) From 1907, he was a professor of sociology at London University.

Hobhouse’s best-known works are Labour Movement (1893,) Theory of Knowledge (1896,) Morals in Evolution (1906,) and Development and Purpose (1913.)

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The position of women has no fixed relation to the general level of culture. It has been higher in the remote past than in recent times, and amongst savages it is by no means uniformly low.
Leonard Hobhouse
Topics: Woman

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