Harold J. Laski: “The substitution for it of someone else’s experience, however much wider or wiser than his, is, where it is based upon…”

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.