Harold J. Laski: “It implies power to expand, the choice by the individual of his own…”

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It implies power to expand, the choice by the individual of his own way of life without imposed prohibitions from without.

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Laski argues that true liberty allows individuals to choose their own way of life without external prohibitions.

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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?

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