It is not difficult indeed to show that there isa
distinct, differentiated, Liberal attitude towards • the big ques- tions of to-day. It • is easy to see where the Liberal Party differs from the Labour Party and where it differs from the Unionist Party. But what we have been unable to detect is any deep and broad movement in the country which the Liberal Party can give expression to. Political parties do not live by discovering pro- grammes and policies which they can ram down the throats of the electorate. They must rather seek to give expression to some real tendency of thought and feeling which is rooted in the instincts of a consider- able proportion of the people. Unless the Liberal Party can do this we do not see how it can ever again become, as it has so often been in the past, the dominant force in English life. But this is not to say that it will dis. appear for many years to come.
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