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Title: Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham

Author: Harold J. Laski

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No. 103

_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.

POLITICAL THOUGHT IN ENGLAND

FROM LOCKE TO BENTHAM

BY

HAROLD J. LASKI

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

NOTE

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

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCTION 7

II. THE PRINCIPLES OF THE REVOLUTION 24

III. CHURCH AND STATE 77

IV. THE ERA OF STAGNATION 127

V. SIGNS OF CHANGE 159

VI. BURKE