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The popular sense of right may often, as Aristotle saw, be wiser than the opinion of statesmen.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgThe popular sense of right may often, as Aristotle saw, be wiser than the opinion of statesmen.
Laski acknowledges the wisdom of the popular sense of right compared to that of statesmen.
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