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Harold J. Laski: The religious freedom of Holland was narrow, as Spinoza had found, but it was still freedom.

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The religious freedom of Holland was narrow, as Spinoza had found, but it was still freedom.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski acknowledges the limitations of religious freedom in Holland while still recognizing it as a form of freedom.

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