Harold J. Laski: “But law, as I have insisted earlier, does not exist for the sake of law.”

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.