For it is the history of these matters that if governments once begin to prohibit men from seeking to prove in writing that violent revolution is desirable, they will, sooner or later, prohibit them from saying that the social order they represent is not divine.
Laski warns against the slippery slope of suppressing revolutionary ideas, suggesting it leads to broader censorship.
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But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
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