On the whole his age was a conservative one, convinced, without due reason, that happiness was independent of birth or wealth and that natural law somehow could be made to justify existing institutions.
Laski critiques the conservative beliefs of his time regarding happiness and the justification of existing institutions.
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If the American colonies want to go, let them by all means cut adrift.
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