What alone can be detected is the growth of a democratic opinion which found its sustenance outside the House of Commons, the opinion the strength of which was later to force the elder Pitt upon an unwilling king.
Laski identifies the emergence of democratic opinion outside of formal political structures.
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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
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