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What is wrong in them is their erection upon the basis of passion and their insistence that reason shall serve what that passion is seeking to protect.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgWhat is wrong in them is their erection upon the basis of passion and their insistence that reason shall serve what that passion is seeking to protect.
Laski argues that systems built on passion rather than reason are fundamentally flawed.
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