Power Tends To CorruptLord Acton (18341902) is often called a historian of liberty. A great historian and political thinker, he had a rare talent to reach beneath the surface and reveal the hidden springs that move the world. While endeavoring to understand the components of a truly free society, Acton attempted to see how the principles of self determination and freedom worked in practice, from antiquity to his own time. But though he penned hundreds of papers, essays,