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But as a thinker he was little more than an optimistic trifler, too content with the conditions of his time to question its assumptions.
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Harold J. Laski
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Laski critiques a thinker's lack of critical engagement with their societal context.
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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
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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