Harold J. Laski: “The new power which seeks its place in the sun is inevitably suspected by the old with whom it claims equal rights.”

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

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