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For the individual is real to himself not by reason of the contacts he shares with others, but because he reaches those contacts through a channel which he alone can know.
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Harold J. Laski
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Here, Laski emphasizes the importance of personal channels of experience in forming individual identity.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
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