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But neither boldness nor severity can stem that tide.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski asserts that neither boldness nor severity can halt the progress of critical thought.
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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
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