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They give excessive protection to old traditions; they make excessively difficult the entrance of new.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “They give excessive protection to old traditions; they make excessively difficult the entrance of new.”
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Laski argues that restrictions favor outdated traditions and hinder new ideas.
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Each age makes some idol in its own image and sacrifices upon its altar the freedom of those who refuse it worship.
When attacks on liberty are political or economic, it is their motive rather than their nature that changes.
Ultimately, that denial is always made upon the same ground: it is insisted that the doctrines or practices attacked are subversive of the civil order.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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