That was the price properly paid for a scheme of things which assumed that the legal right of the state was unlimited, and harnessed to the support of that legality every primitive and barbarous passion by which nationalism can degrade humanity.
Laski critiques the idea of unlimited state power that can degrade humanity through nationalism.
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He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.
Its eldest child is charity, and without it there can be no honesty of opinion.
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