Excerpt from Frederick Lucas: A Biography
It Was under these auspices that the London University was opened, and at once associated, in common estimation, with the innovating tendencies of the day. Nor was there anything unreasonable in this impression. The new college had started with the avowal of an intention to give the utmost latitude to every variety of belief and Opinion. Its founders were all members of the Whig or Radical party, some of them were dissenters from the Established Church, and some were supposed to entertain extreme views in religion or politics. One of its first projectors had been Thomas Campbell, the poet, whose liberal notions ‘on most subjects were as notorious as his genius. One of its earliest patrons was Henry Brougham, who had not then attained to the honours of the peerage, but who was universally known as a leader of the people, and the greatest orator on the side of Reform. Its professors were men of undoubted learning and ability, generally reputed to lean towards the popular cause, and to advocate entire freedom of thought and discussion. Its students were to be admitted without restriction.
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