Harold J. Laski: “There is no myth we are not capable of inventing to lull our conscience.”

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

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

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

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.