I think the perception of the early socialists entirely justified when they urged that a society divided into a small number of rich, and a large number of poor persons, will be a society of exploiters and exploited.
Laski validates early socialist critiques of economic inequality and its social consequences.
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The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.
The State has power only for the protection of natural law.
The revolutionary spirit, in fact, was as much the product of the past as the very institutions it came to condemn.
The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
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