It is even possible to understand why some insisted that if those privileges were, as Burke had argued, essential to the construction of the whole, it was against that whole, alike in purpose and in realization, that they were in revolt.
Laski discusses the argument that essential privileges can lead to revolt against the societal whole.
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I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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