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What is mainly needed is analysis at once of his omissions and of the underlying assumptions of what he wrote.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “What is mainly needed is analysis at once of his omissions and of the underlying assumptions of what he wrote.”
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Laski calls for a deeper analysis of Burke's writings, focusing on what he omitted and the assumptions he made.
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It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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