Harold J. Laski: “Like them, he builds his system upon natural rights; though, unlike them, his natural rights are defended by expediency…”

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

The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.