In the view I am taking, no child could be deprived of education that another might receive it; but in a choice of men say for a post in the Treasury, one might be preferred to another on the ground of ability or character or training.
Laski argues that while education should be equally accessible, merit can guide choices for positions based on ability.
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If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
There is no danger that the general strike will ever be other than a weapon of last resort; the occasions when it can be successfully used will be of the utmost rarity.
That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.
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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