Harold J. Laski: “Yet it will be a civilization of slaves rather than of men.”

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

What is needed is a patriot king who will destroy corruption and awaken the spirit of liberty.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.