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Certainly the history of the abolition of special privilege has been, also, the history of the expansion of what in our inheritance was open to the common man.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski reflects on the historical relationship between the abolition of privilege and the expansion of opportunities for the common man.
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He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
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.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
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