The minister who is to be impeached, the wise servants who are to gain office, the attack on corruption, the spirited foreign policy--all these have the earmarks of a platform rather than of a philosophy.
Laski points out that political platforms often prioritize strategy over philosophical foundations.
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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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