There is a clear case for insisting that persons, even if they be passionate Christian Scientists, who are suffering from an infectious disease like small-pox, shall be isolated until they are cured; for anyone who goes about with small-pox inflicts direct and measurable injury on other persons.
Laski advocates for isolating individuals with infectious diseases to prevent harm to others, emphasizing public health.
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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
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.
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