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To treat men so different as Newton and Byron, Cromwell and Rousseau, in a precisely similar way is patently absurd.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “To treat men so different as Newton and Byron, Cromwell and Rousseau, in a precisely similar way is patently absurd.”
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Laski critiques the absurdity of treating vastly different individuals as if they were the same.
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