The doctrine of prescription might be admirable if all statesmen were so wise as Burke; but in the hands of lesser men it becomes no more than the protective armour of vested interests into the ethics of which it refuses us leave to examine.
Laski warns that Burke's doctrine of prescription can protect vested interests rather than promote ethical governance.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.
But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.
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