I seek to inquire into the terms upon which it is attainable in the Western world, and, more especially, to find those rules of conduct to which political authority must conform if its subjects are, in a genuine sense, to be free.
Laski explores the conditions necessary for achieving true freedom in the Western world.
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The more equality there is in a State, the more use, in general, we can make of our freedom.
In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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