Editing Frederic Harrison (section)

==Politics==
[[File:Ethel Bertha Harrison (1851-1916), by William Blake Richmond.jpg|thumb|[[Ethel Bertha Harrison]] (1851–1916) ([[William Blake Richmond]])]]

An advanced and vehement Radical in politics and Progressive in municipal affairs, Harrison in 1886 stood unsuccessfully as the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] candidate against [[John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury|Sir John Lubbock]] for the [[University of London (UK Parliament constituency)|University of London]] parliamentary constituency. In 1889, he was elected an alderman of the [[London County Council]], but resigned in 1893.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}}

Harrison was a regular contributor to [[George Potter (trade unionist)|George Potter's]] trade unionist journal ''The Beehive'', and to [[W. H. Riley|W. H. Riley's]] ''Commonwealth'', which promoted the [[International Working Men's Association]]. He was a supporter of Polish and Italian independence, the Union in the [[American Civil War]], the reformers in the [[Jamaica Committee]] of 1866, the [[Paris Commune]] and was a vice president of the [[Reform League]]. In an article defending the [[Paris Commune]] which appeared in the ''Fortnightly Review'' Harrison proclaimed: 'The status quo is impossible. The alternative is Communism or Positivism.'<ref>{{cite book|last1=Bowie|first1=Duncan|title=Our History: Roots of the British socialism movement|date=2014|publisher=Socialist History Society|location=London|isbn=9780955513893|pages=29–30}}</ref>

Later works include ''Autobiographic Memoirs'' (1911); ''The Positive Evolution of Religion'' (1912); ''The German Peril'' (1915); ''On Society'' (1918); ''Jurisprudence and Conflict of Nations'' (1919); ''Obiter Dicta'' (1919); ''Novissima Verba'' (1920). The last two of these were collections of vigorous comments on politics and literature contributed by him to the ''Fortnightly Review'' towards the end of [[World War I]] and immediately afterwards.<ref>{{EB1922|inline=y|title=Harrison, Frederic|volume=31|page=339|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri31chisrich/page/339/mode/1up?view=theater}}</ref>