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100	1		_aDickinson, G. Lowes _q(Goldsworthy Lowes), _d1862-1932
240	1	2	_aA modern symposium. Finnish
245	1	0	_aEtsijäin seura
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-09-02
508			_aTuula Temonen
520			_a"Etsijäin seura" by G. Lowes Dickinson is a political-philosophical dialogue written in the early 20th century. It presents a fictional club of “seekers” whose members—public men, scientists, and artists—debate the nature of society and the state. Key voices include Lord Cantilupe the Tory traditionalist, Alfred Remenham the eloquent Liberal, Reuben Mendoza the hard-headed Conservative, and George Allison the pragmatic Socialist, each setting out a personal credo. The likely topic is a searching, idea-driven clash over hierarchy, democracy, free trade, empire, and socialism, staged as a civil yet pointed symposium. The opening of this work introduces the club, the host-narrator’s country-house setting, and the device of “personal confessions” when Cantilupe arrives without a paper. Cantilupe defends inherited hierarchy, the gentleman-gentry state, skepticism of democracy and free trade, and a rooted rural order, explaining his retreat from politics. Remenham answers with a confident liberal credo—trust in popular sovereignty and change, institutions that grow with social forces, and free trade as nature’s exchange, culminating in a cosmopolitan “parliament of man.” Mendoza replies with sardonic realism, questioning pure freedom, praising cautious, empirical governance, prioritizing national strength, and foreseeing imperial federation rather than universal peace, before calling a reflective truce. The spell is broken when Allison begins a brisk socialist case for gradual, technocratic transformation via taxation, public ownership, and expert administration, extending to science, art, and religion under state guidance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cHelsinki: Otava, 1916
653			_aSocial problems
653			_aGreat Britain -- Social conditions
700	1		_aTudeer, O. E. _q(Oskar Emil), _d1850-1930
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76797
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