Harold J. Laski: “There may be an age-limit of service, of course; but, this apart, nothing should permit the removal of a judge from the…”

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

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

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.