It is the imposition of a system of experience upon a people ignorant of the character of that experience for ends only partially its own, and by methods which neglect unduly the relation of consent to happiness in the process of government.
Laski discusses the consequences of imposing foreign systems on people unfamiliar with them, highlighting the importance of consent in governance.
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He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
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