Yet he does not conceal from himself that it is to the interest of the governing class to prevent a revolution which, beneficent to the masses, would be fatal to themselves; nor does he conceive it possible until the fertility of men has been reduced to the capacity of the soil.
Laski acknowledges the self-interest of the governing class in preventing beneficial revolutions for the masses.
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Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
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