And since the State must have within itself all the means of sufficient life, it has the right to resist the ecclesiastical onslaught as based upon the usurpation of power assumed without right.
Laski asserts that the state has the right to defend itself against ecclesiastical power that is claimed without justification.
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It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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