He represents the sturdy nationalism of Arbuthnot's John Bull, the unreasoned prejudice against all foreigners, the hatred of all metaphysics as inconsistent with common sense, the desire to let things be on the ground that the effort after change is worse than the evil of which men complain.
Laski critiques the narrow-minded nationalism represented by Arbuthnot's John Bull, emphasizing its aversion to change.
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But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
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