LIBERALISM

(Old Hat and Old Guard) "Historians' assumptions about a great secularization of politics and political argument in the 1640s, 1680s, 1710s, or whatever period was chosen could be dramatically undermined by the discovery that into the 1820s (in the British Isles) the attack on the establishment was conducted primarily over religious issues and by those men who felt most strongly about them." Clark, p 102.