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Individualism, in the old, utilitarian sense, passed away because it failed to build a State wherein a channel of expression might be found for the creative energies of humble men.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski discusses the decline of individualism in the utilitarian sense, emphasizing the need for a state that supports the creative energies of all individuals.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
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