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The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgEditor's note · Context
Laski asserts that the revolutionary spirit was shaped by historical context as much as by the institutions it opposed.
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