The English youth in India drink the intoxicating draught of authority and dominion before their heads are able to bear it, and as they are full grown in fortune long before they are ripe in principle, neither nature nor reason have any opportunity to exert themselves for the excesses of their premature power.
This quote reflects Laski's concern about the moral and ethical development of British youth in India.
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But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.
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