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His genius, as his metaphysics show, lay essentially in his power of destruction; and the man who gave solipsism to philosophy was not likely to effect a new creation in politics.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski critiques Hume's philosophical approach, suggesting it was more destructive than constructive.
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