Harold J. Laski: “They were protesting against a system strongly upheld on grounds which now appear to have been simply indefensible.”

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

The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.