In wartime, any plea for reasonableness is at a discount; and it was at a discount in England during the general strike when the government sought at once for the conditions of a belligerent atmosphere.
Laski argues that wartime conditions diminish the appeal of reasonableness in political discourse.
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The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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