They were surely to be pardoned if, reading the Reflections of Burke, they regarded class distinctions as more vital than their harmony of interest, when they saw the tenacity with which privileges they did not share were defended.
Laski empathizes with those who see class distinctions as more pressing than societal harmony.
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Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.
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