But the whole procedure had the serious result of making the public expect that any hunger-strike would be a dramatic battle between the government and its prisoner, in which the cause of the imprisonment was lost sight of in the gamble of the procedure.
Laski critiques the public's perception of hunger strikes as mere spectacles.
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Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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