Harold J. Laski: “The Industrial Revolution is hardly less a fundamental change in the habits of English thought than in the technique of…”

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

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.