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But it failed to remember that sense of continuity in human effort without which new constructions are built on sand.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “But it failed to remember that sense of continuity in human effort without which new constructions are built on sand.”
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Laski warns that without a sense of continuity in human effort, new political structures are likely to fail.
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He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
It has been the historic character of persecution always to degrade the persecutor and to strengthen the persecuted by drawing attention to their claims.
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