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What differentiates Locke from all his predecessors is the manner of his writing on the one hand, and the fact of the Revolution on the other.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski identifies the unique aspects of Locke's writing style and the historical context of the Revolution as key differentiators from his predecessors.
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I cannot accept the position that government is always entitled to count on industrial peace, whatever its policy.
The charge that he supported the Revolution in America and deserted it in France is without meaning; for in the one there is no word that can honorably be twisted to support the other.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
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