Harold J. Laski: “Mankind has suffered much from the assumption that, once the people…”

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Mankind has suffered much from the assumption that, once the people had become master in its own house, there was no limit to its power.

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Harold J. Laski

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Laski critiques the misconception that democracy guarantees freedom without limits.

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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.

The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.

He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.

He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.

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