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Harold J. Laski: His views, of course, were the natural expression of his own experience of life, and, without doubt, sincerely held; but…

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His views, of course, were the natural expression of his own experience of life, and, without doubt, sincerely held; but they implied an inability imaginatively to understand alien experience which is pathetic in the limitation it involves.
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Harold J. Laski

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Laski reflects on the limitations of a judge's understanding of different life experiences.

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