Politeness
In Our Time
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The Reaction to the Civil War
Is there a sense in which this was a final reaction to the Civil War, to the country being torn apart? Does that come into the mix of thinking at all? Absolutely. I mean, it's a reaction to... Because that was only 50 years previously. That's right. The two parties that you have in the late 17th, 38th century, the Whigs and the Tories, are essentially the parties that fought the Civil War. But throughout English society is driven in the early 18th century by the rage of party by party conflict. And politeness is about trying to moderate party conflict, moderate religious conflict. This issue remains important right through until 1745, because of Jacob
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