Burke looks with sober admiration at the way in which the English revolution related itself at every point to ideas and theories with which the average man was as familiar as with the physical landmarks of his own neighborhood.
Laski admires Burke's recognition of how the English Revolution resonated with the common man's understanding of ideas and theories.
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The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
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