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Harold J. Laski: Yet Locke's own weapons were being turned against him and what was permanent in his work was being cast into the new…

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Yet Locke's own weapons were being turned against him and what was permanent in his work was being cast into the new form required by the time.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski discusses the evolution of Locke's ideas in response to changing times.

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