The effort to transform a dull and corrupt autocracy into a quasi-constitutional system came, like the efforts of Louis XVI at reform, too late to affect men who had already passed beyond any possibility of compromise with the idea of monarchical power.
Laski compares failed reform efforts of autocracies to historical attempts at change.
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If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
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