Harold J. Laski: “While he did not belittle the value of reason, he was always impressed by the immense part played by prejudice in the…”

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

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.

We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.