On the record
In the result the State becomes dissolved into a discrete mass of individuals, and the self-interest of each is the starting-point of all inquiry.
Said by
Harold J. Laski
Source
gutenberg.orgIn the result the State becomes dissolved into a discrete mass of individuals, and the self-interest of each is the starting-point of all inquiry.
Laski argues that the state ultimately becomes a collection of individuals driven by self-interest.
Share
More from Harold J. Laski
Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.