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They realized, first, that in any society where power is gravely unequal, the character and intelligence of those at the base is unnaturally depressed.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski discusses the detrimental effects of power inequality on the character and intelligence of the lower classes.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
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