Harold J. Laski: “It is a fact inevitable in the situation of the English Church that the charge of subjection to the State should rouse a…”

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.

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

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.