If it is the business of those who exercise authority in the state to satisfy the wants of those over whom they rule, it is plain that they should be informed of those wants; and, obviously, they cannot be truly informed about them unless the mass of men is free to report their experience.
Laski emphasizes the importance of free expression for those in authority to understand the needs of the populace.
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Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
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