Its view is built upon the innumerable intelligences from the interplay of which social organization derives its ultimate form; obviously such a view is superior in its wisdom to the result my own petty knowledge can attain.
Here, Laski suggests that the collective wisdom of society surpasses individual knowledge.
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We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
From no accusation were its statesmen more anxious to be free than from that of a belief in democratic government.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
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