Harold J. Laski: “The theorists build an edifice each part of which a man whose passion…”

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The theorists build an edifice each part of which a man whose passion is attuned to the English nature can show to be obsolete and ugly.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski critiques the theoretical constructs of political thinkers as outdated and disconnected from English nature.

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The only way to deal with novelty is to understand it, and the only way to deal with grievance is to seek a remedy for the complaint it embodies.

We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.

Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.

To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.

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Harold J. Laski: “The theorists build an edifice each part of which a man whose passion is attuned to the English nature can show to be…”