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It is so accustomed to the idea of its own superiority, that it is resentful of considerations which inquire into the validity of that assumption.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski points out that an aristocracy's sense of superiority leads to resentment towards challenges to its authority.
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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
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