It took three centuries to build up the sovereign national state to that amplitude which proclaimed its own disastrous character in 1914; it would be remarkable indeed if a decade full of memories and hates so passionate as those of the last ten years sufficed to overthrow its authority.
Laski reflects on the long history of national sovereignty and its implications post-World War I.
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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
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