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Our pooling of experiences to make a common purpose somewhere is in no case other than fragmentary.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Our pooling of experiences to make a common purpose somewhere is in no case other than fragmentary.”
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Laski argues that collective experiences do not create a cohesive purpose but remain partial.
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He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
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