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Always the effort is to insist upon an artificial unity the maintenance of which is necessary to the desires of those who hold power.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski argues that those in power often create an artificial sense of unity to maintain control over society.
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How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
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