It seems to me quite definitely a denial of liberty for which no justification can be found to say that men shall work on terms they think utterly unjust; and the argument that, if they do not like those terms, they can find other work, is, increasingly, without force in a community like our own.
Laski argues against forcing individuals to work under unjust conditions.
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That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
There are realms of conduct within which, to be free, I must be permitted to act as I please; to be denied self-expression there, is to be denied freedom.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
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