Politics, as Seeley said, are vulgar unless they are liberalized by history; and a state which failed to see itself as a mosaic of ancestral institutions would build its novelties upon foundations of sand.
Laski emphasizes the importance of historical context in politics, arguing against a purely modern perspective.
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I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.
It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
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