No one can watch the economic struggles of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries or calculate the pain they have involved to humble men, without admitting that they represent the final protest of an outraged mind against oppression too intolerable to be borne.
Laski reflects on the economic struggles of the past as a response to unbearable oppression.
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How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
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