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But its error was not to see that the community is not merely a mass of discrete individuals.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “But its error was not to see that the community is not merely a mass of discrete individuals.”
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Laski argues that the community should not be viewed merely as a collection of individuals.
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The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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.
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