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What was 'new' about the Liberal Social Reforms? The key concept of Old Liberalism was the view of society as a collection of individuals. From this came the idea that the only proper, decent way to encourage economic growth, and thus, a better country, was to encourage entrepreneurship, and individual liberty. The Classical Liberalists were against Government intervention in the lives of their populace for this reason, as they believed that were they to help people who found themselves in trouble, then they would give them no motivation to drag themselves out of their problems, thus stunting entrepreneurship. The government's role, in the eyes of these Gladstonian Liberals should be solely to remove all barriers to individualism, and to provide very limited social services. To do anymore to interfere in the lives of those downtrodden masses would be to removes the need for self-improvement, and thus the need to make your...

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