I think he was a bit more of a complex character than that: some of his attitudes seem surprisingly liberal, especially in the context of their day. This may be, of course, just me suffering an example of the historico-I'm-sure-there-must-be-an-appropriate-word effect, whereby if one tries to map today's spectrum of political positions onto those of a past era one becomes, especially if as ignorant of history as I am, mightily confused.
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Date: 2010-09-05 02:30 pm (UTC)I think he was a bit more of a complex character than that: some of his attitudes seem surprisingly liberal, especially in the context of their day. This may be, of course, just me suffering an example of the historico-I'm-sure-there-must-be-an-appropriate-word effect, whereby if one tries to map today's spectrum of political positions onto those of a past era one becomes, especially if as ignorant of history as I am, mightily confused.