There is, indeed, in all his political observations a strong sense of the virtue of order, and a perception that the radicalism of the time was too abstract to provide an adequate basis for government.
Laski emphasizes the importance of order in political thought, critiquing the abstract nature of radicalism.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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