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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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Editor's note · Context
Laski observes that critics of certain doctrines fail to recognize the implications of their own beliefs.
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