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There is no method known of confining character and energy and ability to their own ranks.
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Harold J. Laski
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gutenberg.orgHarold J. Laski: “There is no method known of confining character and energy and ability to their own ranks.”
Editor's note · Context
Laski asserts that character and ability cannot be confined to a specific social class.
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The essence of the persecuting position is always that the persecutor has hold of truth and that he would betray its service by allowing it to be questioned.
To deny novelty or grievance a right of expression is a certain, if, indeed, an ultimate, validation of the truth they contain.
We grant it in religion to deny it in politics; we grant it in politics, to deny it in economic matters.
He is able, accordingly, to indulge in the twofold luxury not only of preserving his own authority, but also of assisting the persons attacked to enter, if they so choose, the way of truth.
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