Cecil, Algernon : (Edgar Algernon) Robert Gascoigne-Cecil (1864-1958), 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, British statesman, winner of the 1937 Nobel Peace Prize. He was a principal draftsman of the League of Nations Covenant in 1919 & a most loyal worker for the League until its supersession by the United Nations in 1945.

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... it, she must rise up and live it before all the world so that it may be proved a possible law of conduct both for men and nations. Lord Honest John On the converse side a passage from Mr. Algernon Cecil's "Six Oxford Thinkers" is instructive. He dwells on the self-contradictory and ironic close of John Morley's life. "He the philosophic Liberal, the ardent advocate of Home Rule, the persistent... phrase, absolute constitution, as anything but an oxymoron, a "witty folly", a happy and ironical contradiction in terms. But for the rest the implied criticism is just. The Failure of Europe Mr. Cecil sees in this ending of Honest John as Lord Morley the failure of Liberalism; and it must be remembered that the failure of Liberalism means the abandonment of the gospel of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity... and some malicious spirit has given us new ones bathed in the most material sort of golden splendour. And Misery, Vice and Discontent stalk among the drudges of society much as they did before." Mr. Cecil like most Europeans sees that European liberalism has failed but like most Europeans utterly misses the real reason of the failure. The principles of 1789 were not false, but they were falsely stated ...