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For the larger part of the modern world, his argument is acceptable enough; and its ingenious compromises have made it especially representative of the English temper.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski acknowledges the general acceptance of Locke's arguments in the modern world, reflecting English sensibilities.
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The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
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