Quotation of the Day…

by Don Boudreaux on October 26, 2013

in Civil Society

… is from page 181 of Daniel Boorstin’s lovely 1998 volume, The Seekers:

[John] Locke also enjoyed the spectacle of rising commerce and flourishing trade with the colonies, which he identified with toleration and a more open society.  The example of Holland showed how toleration could nourish commerce, and how both could nourish culture.

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