Harold J. Laski: “Men are not willing to yield the insight of their experience to other…”

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Men are not willing to yield the insight of their experience to other men’s insight merely because they are commanded to do so.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski asserts that individuals resist yielding their insights to authority without persuasion.

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I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

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

Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.

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Harold J. Laski: “Men are not willing to yield the insight of their experience to other men’s insight merely because they are commanded to…”