Nations inevitably decay, and the commercial grandeur of England is the symptom of old age; it means a final departure from the simplicity of nature and breeds the luxury which kills by enervation.
Laski reflects on the decline of nations and the consequences of commercialism in England.
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Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
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