The impulses it praised and sought through state-action to express were, indeed, different from those upon which Smith laid emphasis; and he would doubtless have stood aghast at the way in which his thought was turned to ends of which he did not dream.
Laski critiques the misinterpretation of Adam Smith's ideas, suggesting that they were used for purposes he never intended.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
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