Harold J. Laski: “Deprive a man of knowledge, and the road to ever greater knowledge, and you will make him, inevitably, the slave of…”

I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.

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

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

Man is a one among many obstinately refusing reduction to unity.