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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