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To shelter him at every point from experience which, if carried to excess, may harm him is not only impossible, but also dangerous.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski warns against the dangers of overprotecting individuals from harmful experiences, suggesting it can lead to greater issues.
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There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
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