But, also, most states are wise enough to realize that victories of this kind are empty victories, that solutions imposed by force have consequences invariably too grave to be satisfactory in their application.
Laski reflects on the futility of victories achieved through force, emphasizing their negative consequences.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
How could it seek security where it defied the desires of the vast majority of its subjects?
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