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For it records the ideals and doubts of earlier ages as a perennial challenge to the coming time.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “For it records the ideals and doubts of earlier ages as a perennial challenge to the coming time.”
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Laski argues that history serves as a continuous challenge, reflecting the ideals and uncertainties of past generations.
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When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
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.
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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