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Harold J. Laski: I, certainly, am not prepared, on a priori grounds, to say that a lawyer, however well-trained in the law, has a better…

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I, certainly, am not prepared, on a priori grounds, to say that a lawyer, however well-trained in the law, has a better sense of what is likely to produce moral depravity than Mr Bennett or Mr Shaw; and a reading of Miss Hall’s dull and sincere pamphlet only reinforces that impression.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski argues that legal training does not necessarily equip someone to judge moral depravity better than literary figures.

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