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Harold J. Laski: Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski acknowledges the continued relevance of Locke's work in contemporary discussions.

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