I think it still worse to make the central figures in the drama of illegality powerful in the lives of those to whom they purvey their service; men and women whose methods of obtaining a living it does not occur to their clients to condemn.
Laski emphasizes the negative impact of illegal figures on their clients, highlighting a moral dilemma.
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The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
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