Harold J. Laski: “Condemnation by the law seems to have little or no effect in dispelling its influence.”

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.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.

The State has power only for the protection of natural law.