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Man is for him so much the creature of prejudice, so much a mosaic of ancestral tradition, that the chance of novel thought finding a peaceful place among his institutions is always small.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski discusses the impact of prejudice and tradition on human thought and its acceptance of new ideas.
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