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Not until the French Revolution were ultimate dogmas again called into question; and it is about them only that political speculation provokes deep feeling.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Laski points out that it was not until the French Revolution that fundamental political dogmas were seriously questioned again.
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