Harold J. Laski: “The eighteenth century has an importance in English politics which the…”

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The eighteenth century has an importance in English politics which the comparative absence of systematic speculation can not conceal.

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Laski asserts the importance of the eighteenth century in English politics despite its lack of systematic philosophical speculation.

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