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For by that service he becomes a free man, and his freedom is a condition of other men’s freedom.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgFor by that service he becomes a free man, and his freedom is a condition of other men’s freedom.
Laski connects individual freedom with the freedom of others, emphasizing mutual dependence.
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We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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.
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.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.