The result was that the knowledge at the disposal of Liberals and Conservatives, the significant experience upon which they could draw for the making of their policy, was always more narrow than the area of the problems they had to meet.
Laski critiques the narrow experience of Liberals and Conservatives in addressing broader societal problems.
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I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
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