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Rising Man. Rab Butler knows where he is going because he laid down the road. It is a new road for Toryism, and Butler is a new kind of Tory. He belongs neither to the aristocracy of Churchill and Eden nor the business world of Lord Woolton and Neville Chamberlain, but to a long line of scholars and civil servants. His new Toryism accepts the welfare state and its social services with enthusiasm-but with an insistence that people be treated as individuals. It maintains a man's right to be secure collectively, but insists on his right...
...cation. But the "Butler Act" did more. In the public's view, Rab's name no longer stood for a man of Munich, but for a leader of social reform. When the time came, Butler was the logical choice as the spokesman for the new progressive Toryism...
...Crooked Atoms. The result, contained in a series of brilliant pamphlets, was to make coherent policy out of the deep distrust which Tories felt for the new Socialism. Rab replanted the sturdy old roots of Toryism in modern soil. The guiding principles of his philosophy were 1) a belief in the divine origin of the human personality, and 2) a faith in Christian ethics. Rab denied the cynical Marxist view of British history as the selfish struggle of classes; he saw it as a long odyssey of the individual toward the fullest expression of himself, in which each tradition...
...Toryism accepted the social services as giving individuals fuller expression, and even claimed credit for helping create them. But Rab also transformed the terms in which the Tories saw them selves. Instead of capitalists itching to grind the faces of the poor, he saw them as exponents of freedom resisting an autocratic state. He wanted, said Butler, "a creative society, not a series of state almshouses...
Hope & Challenge. Butler also faces-and he never forgets-a Labor Party which still commands the allegiance of half the British electorate. Many a voter is still to be convinced that Toryism has really changed. Many a Briton is more concerned to be secure in what he has than to produce (and risk) more. Many workers, asked to do in four days work that now takes them five, balk for fear they will be laid off on the fifth. Many manufacturers are content to produce for a known limited market rather than risk expansion. It is this attitude that...