Harold J. Laski: “No one, I suppose, can seriously doubt that men like Mr Comstock…”

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No one, I suppose, can seriously doubt that men like Mr Comstock regard themselves as the saviours of society.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski notes that figures like Mr. Comstock see themselves as societal protectors, revealing their self-perception.

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The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

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Harold J. Laski: “No one, I suppose, can seriously doubt that men like Mr Comstock regard themselves as the saviours of society.”