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Few things are more detrimental than this to the moral equilibrium of a social order.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “Few things are more detrimental than this to the moral equilibrium of a social order.”
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Laski emphasizes the detrimental effects of ineffective law enforcement on the moral fabric of society.
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Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
He showed that government by discussion can be made to illuminate great principles.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
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