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The Philosophy, Politics and Religion of British Democracy: Maurice Cowling and Conservatism (2010), pp. 153-85. Michael Oakeshott, 'The masses in representative democracy', in Oakeshott, Rationalism in Politics and other essays (ed. Timothy Fuller) (1991 edition), pp. 363-83.

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See Michael Oakeshott, “The Masses in Representative Democracy”, in Rationalism in Politics and Other Essays, ed. T. Fuller (Indianapolis, Indiana: Liberty Press, 1991) 371-381. 8“The Masses in Representative Democracy”, 364. Alan Macfarlane suggests that by the 13th century England already manifested many of the characteristics which are associated with modern individualism. He writes.

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The proponents of this scheme, according to Oakeshott, do not recognize the significance of circumstance; therefore, they cannot countenance diversity. In his Rationalism in Politics, Oakeshott sees William Godwin as an example of this failure. A rationalist, armed with the doctrine of universalism, Godwin held that there “must in the nature.