John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton person
also: Lord Acton, John Dahlberg Acton, first Baron Acton, Baron Acton
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John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton member_of
Cambridge University documented
“So many things have gone wrong in the 20th century because of papal infallibility. And Acton and Gladstone were pushing against that. 1895, Acton becomes a professor at Cambridge. Remember the place he couldn't get into school because he wa…”
▶ The Shadow State 77 Pilgrims Society 3 @ 13:24
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton founded
Pilgrims Society host_asserted
“That came from Lord Acton, who's one of the founders of the Pilgrim Society, which seems like a contrast, right? Yeah. He came from Naples royalty. His grandfather was an admiral and was also the prime minister of Sir John Acton, the sixth …”
▶ The Shadow State 77 Pilgrims Society 3 @ 5:30
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton member_of
Pilgrims Society host_asserted
“First guy we are going to talk about is none other than Lord Acton. Now, Lord Acton died in 1902, right before the first Pilgrim Society meeting happened in England. But he was very much one of the architects of it leading up to it, and he'…”
▶ The Shadow State 77 Pilgrims Society 3 @ 3:51
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton founded
Cambridge Modern History host_asserted
“documents that I have out in my studio. One of the authors noted that he was the editor of the Cambridge Modern History and that it basically became the official narrative of history at Cambridge for a very long time. Wouldn't mind reading …”
▶ The Shadow State 77 Pilgrims Society 3 @ 14:37
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton member_of
Pilgrims Society host_asserted
“Renee, if you find out that he was a Marshall Scholar, send me the list. You know where to reach me. That's all I've got for today, Colonel, because that's a lot. That's a lot. Well done. We've got Astors. We've got Marshalls. We've got Lor…”
▶ The Shadow State 77 Pilgrims Society 3 @ 1:23:01
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▶ 3:51
First guy we are going to talk about is none other than Lord Acton. Now, Lord Acton died in 1902, right before the first Pilgrim Society meeting happened in England. But he was very much one of the architects of it leading up to it, and he'…
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they raised him up to a baron from whatever he was before he was born in 1834 he's an english catholic historian the catholic part's really important because you're going to find almost all the pilgrims are protestant and that's a big part …
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So he was a liberal politician. And I say that in the classical liberal sense. You know, the modern day liberal is anything but liberal. The classical liberal believe in things. We've talked about this before. Free speech, limited governmen…
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That came from Lord Acton, who's one of the founders of the Pilgrim Society, which seems like a contrast, right? Yeah. He came from Naples royalty. His grandfather was an admiral and was also the prime minister of Sir John Acton, the sixth …
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So we've talked about all these elite circles in Oxford and Cambridge. You see the same thing in the Ivy League. Catholics were shunned. So instead, he goes off to Munich and studies there, Germany, studies foreign languages and builds a ve…
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And he was part of the British mission to Moscow at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia. Kind of a big deal. And it really shows you how the upper class, the upper, upper class operates. They have their inner circles and they cross bor…
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By 1859, he settles back in England and joins the House of Commons, a member of Parliament. And he becomes an admirer of a guy by the name of William Gladstone. Are you familiar with Gladstone? Mm-hmm. Yeah, it's another really interesting …
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The Labor Party. Same thing happened in America. The Labor Union started out as classical liberal and ended up being leftist. Gladstone was part of that. So great man. That was the hero of our guy, Lord Acton. They were really good friends.…
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with the Confederacy just because of its defense for states' rights over national power. He actually wrote to General Lee that he deemed, and this is a quote, he deemed that you were fighting battles for our liberty, our progress, and our c…
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During his trial, he made a bunch of nationalist and anti-communist statements to the court and would see standing applause for his comments in the courtroom. This nationalist German fever was already there in 1919. He favored federalism, n…
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1869, Queen Victoria raised him to the peers as Baron Acton. That happened because Gladstone had interceded for him prior to Gladstone heading to Rome, ready for this, to resist the Pope's plan to have what's known as papal infallibility co…
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So many things have gone wrong in the 20th century because of papal infallibility. And Acton and Gladstone were pushing against that. 1895, Acton becomes a professor at Cambridge. Remember the place he couldn't get into school because he wa…
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Gets purchased by none other than Andrew Carnegie in secret. And Carnegie then donates the collection to Cambridge. A couple other great quotes from Acton before we move on. He says, great men are almost always bad men, even when they exerc…
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documents that I have out in my studio. One of the authors noted that he was the editor of the Cambridge Modern History and that it basically became the official narrative of history at Cambridge for a very long time. Wouldn't mind reading …
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Yeah, it would be interesting because one of the critiques of him is that in doing so, it made everybody aware because his focus was more, which will sound familiar to the audience, scientific interpretations of things and that he basically…
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sovereign nationalist tendencies of states for a more collective agreement across many states, which of course is kind of the whole philosophy of the Pilgrims in general. That was one of the critiques about him is that his historical rendit…
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Yeah, I found it very interesting how he was such a fan of the Federalist model. I mean, obviously, one of my other big shows is the re-Federalist report. So I'm obviously an outspoken fan of Federalism. I think Acton is one of these, of al…
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And our body Lord Acton was against the opium parade. I wonder how well they got along in these conversations. Well, that's why I'm saying, I, I think people think that, um, the, the, what would I say? Not details, but the moralistic, um, s…
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Renee, if you find out that he was a Marshall Scholar, send me the list. You know where to reach me. That's all I've got for today, Colonel, because that's a lot. That's a lot. Well done. We've got Astors. We've got Marshalls. We've got Lor…