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...Higginson Professor of History. This is the Squire of Sparks St. the insatiable collector of this and that, the indefatigable narrator of faded stories, the herenow admirer of Oliver Cromwell. This is he who was called from Yale in 1920 to fill the eight-league boots of Mr. Harold Laski...
When three years had rolled by, and Laski had departed, Wilbur Cortez Abbott, therefore, was the natural choice for the vacancy. As expected, he dropped snugly into the atmosphere of Brattle Street. His speculation was undramatic, his sufficient works dealt with the dead past, his lectures with innocuous anecdotes and data. He became, in the course of time, a stock-holder in the Harvard Cooperative Society, and an Associate of Lowell House; he acquired the grey hair and the mien of a Bank President. He fitted; he fits; he will...
...Princeton and the chief justice of the supreme court. Mr. Hoover has, in his own accounting, halved his working hours and doubled his income, and is in a good way to recoup the losses which his public service occasioned. Strangely apropos to all this seem the words of Harold Laski in the current Harper's: "This democratic elite cannot devote itself to the acquisition of power, of wealth, of authority, for these things are fatal to independence, and their quest breeds men concerned rather with truths that hope for acceptance than with truth." Still, Castor says it is an unpleasant...
...those who persist in repeating the old formula that England is known far and wide for its propensity to compromise, that its people are a law-abiding nation, that democracy has reigned uninterrupted since 1688, Mr. Laski has two replies. One is the clear fact that no serious, fundamental issue has since been forced to the attention of the country; the two parties have been able to agree to disagree, simply because they are agreed on what Madison termed "the only enduring source of faction--Property." The other answer is that until now the continued economic success of the capitalist...
...Laski has paid particular attention to the English situation, but he maintains that the broad arguments he has put forward are equally applicable to other countries, and his reasoning is hard to refute. But whether or not "Democracy in Crisis" moves one to brandish the hammer and the sickle, it is a book which can find few contemporary rivals for the vigor of its prose and the shrewdness of its thrusts...