Harold J. Laski: “And the greater the degree in which it springs from that persuasion, the greater, also, is the success of authority in…”

But when trade unions seek for what they regard as justice, one of their most powerful sources of strength is the awakening of the slow and inert public to a sense of the position.

Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.

Nor do I see why it is unconstitutional for Labour, as in 1926, to withdraw from work in an orderly and coherent way.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.