Every generation contains examples of men who, in the context of ultimate experience, deliberately decide that an anarchy in which they seek to maintain some principle is preferable to an order in which that principle must be surrendered.
Laski notes that individuals may prefer anarchy over a system that forces them to abandon their principles.
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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
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.
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