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Rather the note of the book is a quiet optimism, impressed by the possibilities of constant improvement which lie imbedded in the human impulse to better itself.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski highlights an optimistic view of human potential for improvement in society.
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In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
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