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The State is morally stunted where their powers go undeveloped.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “The State is morally stunted where their powers go undeveloped.”
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Laski asserts that a state's moral development is hindered when individuals' powers are undeveloped.
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Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
The case for the view that freedom of thought and speech is a good in itself is fairly easy to make.
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