Questions like those of birth control, extra-marital love, companionate marriage, sexual perversion, cannot really be faced in a scientific fashion by applying to them the standards of a nomadic Eastern people which drew up its rules more than two thousand years ago.
Laski critiques the application of outdated cultural standards to modern issues of personal freedom and morality.
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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
In a time of crisis, particularly, when the things we hold most dear are threatened, we shall find the desire to throw overboard the habits of tolerance, almost irresistible.
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