First published 1887
Acton-Creighton Correspondence
Acton-Creighton Correspondence by Lord Acton is available as a free PDF and EPUB download at freecapitalists.org.
- Lord Acton
- First published
- 1887
- Format
- PDF and EPUB
- Pages
- 17
- Publisher
- Letters of 1887; Online Library of Liberty edition
- License
- Public domain by publication date.
Letters that Lord Acton wrote to Bishop Mandell Creighton in 1887, first printed in 1904 in the biography of Creighton. In them Acton gives his famous judgment that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and argues that historians must apply the same moral standards to great men as to anyone else.
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- How long is Acton-Creighton Correspondence?
- 17 pages, 6 chapters, and about 6,811 words in the edition this archive serves.
- Who wrote Acton-Creighton Correspondence?
- John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton (1834–1902), commonly known as Lord Acton, was a leading 19th-century English historian in the classical liberal tradition. This archive holds 3 of Acton's works.
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