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The religious freedom of Holland was narrow, as Spinoza had found, but it was still freedom.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgThe religious freedom of Holland was narrow, as Spinoza had found, but it was still freedom.
Laski acknowledges the limitations of religious freedom in Holland while still recognizing it as a form of freedom.
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