Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham
Editors:
HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A. PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, LITT.D. LL.D., F.B.A. PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A. PROF. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A.
SOMETIME EXHIBITIONER OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD, OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY, AUTHOR OF STUDIES IN THE PROBLEM OF SOVEREIGNTY AND AUTHORITY IN THE MODERN STATE
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY LONDON WILLIAMS AND NORGATE
1920
It is impossible for me to publish this book without some expression of the debt it owes to Leslie Stephen's History of the English Thought in the Eighteenth Century . It is almost insolent to praise such work; but I may be permitted to say that no one can fully appreciate either its wisdom or its knowledge who has not had to dig among the original texts.
Were so small a volume worthy to bear a dedication, I should associate it with the name of my friend Walter Lippmann. He and I have so often discussed the substance of its problems that I am certain a good deal of what I feel to be my own is, where it has merit, really his. This volume is thus in great part a tribute to him; though there is little that can repay such friendship as he gives.
H.J.L.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY Sept. 15, 1919
Harold J. Laski
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NOTE
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER II
THE PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTION
CHAPTER III
CHURCH AND STATE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
CHAPTER IV
THE ERA OF STAGNATION
CHAPTER V
SIGNS OF CHANGE
CHAPTER VI
BURKE
CHAPTER VII
THE FOUNDATIONS OF ECONOMIC LIBERALISM
BIBLIOGRAPHY
GENERAL
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
INDEX