A Liberal Descent

1. Introduction; Part I: The whig; 2. A heritage and its history; 3. Macaulay: progress and piety; 4. Macaulay's res publica; Part II: The tory; 5. The German inheritance: a people and its institutions; 6. Autonomy and self-realisation: Stubbs' constitutional history; Part III: The democrat; 7. Teutonic freedom and municipal independence; 8. Conquest, continuity and restoration; Part IV: The imperialist; 9. 'Something strange and isolates': Froude and the sixteenth century; 10 The spirit's trials: Reformation and renewal; 11. Postscript.