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Everyone who seeks to penetrate below the surface sees some vast calamity ahead.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Everyone who seeks to penetrate below the surface sees some vast calamity ahead.”
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Laski reflects on the ominous future perceived by those who look beyond superficial appearances in society.
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The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.
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