And, equally, we may learn that a narrow patriotism in history and politics has social results less admirable than a quick scepticism built from the sense that our country has not always been right, our institutional standards not invariably perfect.
Laski warns against narrow patriotism in history and politics, advocating for skepticism.
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Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
When I obey the state, I obey the best part of myself.
It is an attempt to give each man as similar a chance as possible to utilize what powers he may possess.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
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