Happiness depends upon being able to approach with an open mind facts which have been prepared by independent persons who have no interest in seeing that their incidence is bent in some particular way.
Laski posits that true happiness is contingent upon engaging with unbiased information.
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Each age finds that the incidence of freedom is significant at some special point, and there, once more, the lesson of freedom has to be learned.
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.
The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
We grant toleration in one part of the field only to deny it in another.
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