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His own contempt for the results of reasonable inquiry is a ceaseless lesson in the virtue of consistent scrutiny of our inheritance.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski highlights the importance of consistent scrutiny in understanding our political heritage.
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There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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