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They pursued relentlessly the logical conclusions of the doctrines they abhorred without being willing carefully to investigate the results to which their own doctrines in logic led.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgThey pursued relentlessly the logical conclusions of the doctrines they abhorred without being willing carefully to investigate the results to which their own doctrines in logic led.
Laski observes that critics of certain doctrines fail to recognize the implications of their own beliefs.
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