Harold J. Laski: “And let us remember, also, that even where the judge is prepared to do his duty, he cannot, in a period of excitement…”

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.

Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.