No system of habits can ever hope to endure long in a world where the cumulative power of memory enables change to be so swift; and no system of habits can endure at all unless its underlying idea represents the satisfaction of a general desire.
Laski argues that no set of habits can survive in a rapidly changing world unless they fulfill a common desire among people.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.
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