Harold J. Laski: “I am not a part of some great symphony in which I realize myself only as an incident in the motif of the whole.”

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

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

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

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.