Harold J. Laski: “He cannot, on other grounds, use force for the simple reason that it does not produce internal conviction.”

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

The main thing was to be rid of the Divine Right of kings.

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.