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I cannot believe that a theory fits the facts of history which assumes that this policy is going to be right, whatever it is; and that freedom will be found only in acceptance of it.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “I cannot believe that a theory fits the facts of history which assumes that this policy is going to be right, whatever…”
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Laski rejects the idea that any policy can be deemed right simply by its acceptance, advocating for critical evaluation.
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The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
Where mistakes are made, where there is corruption, or dishonesty, or abuse, it can be brought home forthwith to its authors.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
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