October 19, 1968 P. 173

October 19, 1968 P. 173

The New Yorker, October 19, 1968 P. 173

ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the origin and th evolution of the term "the Establishment," a term used by Mr. Fairlie in an issue of the Spectator of Sep. 23, 1955. The young reporters, the most daring among them, John Raymond, was intellectually the most daring among them. He insisted, night after night, that the common law had replaced religion in England and that in the secular idols erected under the common law could be fround the cause of most of their evils. Tells about his vehemence against Edward Coke, for so long held up by Whig historians as the greatest commo lawyer of all time and one of the founders of English liberties, was almost personal, as if Coke were still alive.

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