Whatever the motive of abstention, let us remember that men think differently who live differently, and that, as they think, so they build principles of action to remedy what, in their lives, they find bitter or unjust, to preserve what they find pleasant or right.
Laski emphasizes that people's differing life experiences shape their thoughts and actions regarding justice and freedom.
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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
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