Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham

by Harold J. Laski

GENERAL

• LESLIE STEPHEN.
  • History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. 1876. Vol. II, Chapters IX and X.
• W.E.H. LECKY.
  • History of England in the Eighteenth Century.
• A.L. SMITH.
  • Political Philosophy in England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Cambridge Modern History. Vol. VI, Chapter XXIII.
• J. BONAR.
  • Philosophy and Political Economy. Chapters V-IX.
• F.W. MAITLAND.
  • An Historical Sketch of Liberty and Equality in Collected Papers. Vol. I.

CHAPTER II

• JOHN LOCKE.
  • Works (Eleventh Edition), 10 volumes. London, 1812.
• H.R. FOX-BOURNE.
  • Life of John Locke. London, 1876.
• T.H. GREEN.
  • The Principles of Political Obligation in Collected Works. Vol. II. London, 1908.
• PETER. LORD KING.
  • The Life and Letters of John Locke. London, 1858.
• SIR F. POLLOCK.
  • Locke's Theory of the State in Proc. Brit. Acad.. Vol. I. London, 1904.
• S.P. LAMPRECHT.
  • The Moral and Political Philosophy of Locke. New York, 1918.
• A.A. SEATON.
  • The Theory of Toleration under the Later Stuarts. Cambridge, 1911.
• J.N. FIGGIS.
  • The Divine Right of Kings. Cambridge, 1914.

CHAPTER III

• JEREMY COLLIER.
  • The History of Passive Obedience. London, 1689.
• WILLIAM SHERLOCK.
  • The Case of Resistance. London, 1684.
• CHARLES LESLIE.
  • The Case of the Regale (Collected Works). Vol. Ill, p. 291.
  • The Rehearsal.
  • The New Association.
  • Cassandra.
  • The Finishing Stroke.
  • Obedience to Civil Government Clearly Stated.
  • The Best Answer.
  • The Best of All.
• SAMUEL GRASCOM.
  • A Brief Answer.
• E. SHELLINGFLEET.
  • A Vindication of their Majesties Authoritie.
• B. SHOWER.
  • A Letter to a Convocation Man.
• W. WAKE.
  • The Authority of Christian Princes. The State of the Church (1703).
• FRANCIS ATTERBURY.
  • Rights, Powers and Privileges of an English Convocation (1701).
• BENJAMIN HOADLY.
  • Origins of Civil Government (1710).
  • Preservative Against Nonjurors (1716).
  • Works, 3 vols. London (1773).
• WILLIAM LAW.
  • A Defence of Church Principles (ed. Gore). Edinburgh, 1904.
• W. WARBURTON.
  • Alliance between Church and State (1736).
• J.H. OVERTON.
  • The Nonjurors. New York, 1903.
• T. LATHEBURY.
  • History of Convocation. London, 1842.

CHAPTER IV

• BERKELEY.
  • Essay Towards Preventing the Ruin of Great Britain (1721).
• H. ST. JOHN (Viscount Bolingbroke).
  • Works. 5 vols. London, 1754.
• LORD EGMONT.
  • Faction detected by the Evidence of Facts (1742).
• DAVID HUME.
  • Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals (1752).
  • Essays. (1742-1752) ed. Green & Grose. London, 1876.
• W. SICHEL.
  • Life of Bolingbroke. 2 vols. 1900-4.
• J. CHURTON COLLINS.
  • Bolingbroke and Voltaire in England.
• J. HILL BURTON.
  • Life of Hume.

CHAPTER V

• MONTESQUIEU.
  • L'Esprit des Lois (1748).
• J.J. ROUSSEAU.
  • Du Contrat Social (1762). See ed. by Vaughan, 1918.
• JOHN BROWN.
  • Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times (1757).
• ADAM FERGUSON.
  • Essay on the History of Civil Society (1767).
• WILLIAM BLACKSTONE.
  • Commentaries (1765-9).
• JEREMY BENTHAM.
  • A Fragment on Government (1776). Ed. F.C. Montague, 1891.
• J. DE LOLME.
  • The Constitution of England (1775).
• ROBERT WALLACE.
  • Various Prospects (1761).
• JOSEPH PRIESTLEY.
  • Essay on the First Principles of Government (1768).
• RICHARD PRICE.
  • Observations on Civil Liberty (1776).
  • Additional Observations (1777).
• WILLIAM OGILVIE.
  • The Right of Property in Land (1781). Ed. Macdonald, 1891.
• JOSIAH TUCKER.
  • Treatise on Civil Government (1781).
• SAMUEL JOHNSON.
  • Taxation No Tyranny (1775).
• M. BEER.
  • History of British Socialism (1919).
• JAMES BOSWELL.
  • Life of Samuel Johnson (1791).