He [Dr Arnold] was, as he consistently declared, a Liberal. In his opinion, by the very constitution of human nature, the principles of progress and reform had been those of wisdom and justice in every age of the world - except one: that which preceded the fall of man from paradise. Had he lived then Dr Arnold would have been a Conservative.
L. Strachey, Eminent Victorians (1918), 174
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