What the Nonconformists wanted was to be left alone; and Davenant explained the root of their desire when he tells of the gaols crowded with substantial tradesmen whose imprisonment spelt unemployment for thousands of workmen.
Laski illustrates the Nonconformists' desire for autonomy and the economic consequences of their imprisonment.
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Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
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