Locke may not possess the clarity and ruthless logic of Hobbes, or the genius for compressing into a phrase the experience of a lifetime which makes Burke the first of English political thinkers.
Laski compares Locke's philosophical clarity and logic to that of Hobbes and Burke, emphasizing his unique contributions to political thought.
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Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
If no such news is at hand it will be manufactured.
The contract is thus not general as with Hobbes but limited and specific in character.
He realized that freedom is born of a certain spontaneity for which the rigid lines of doctrinaire thinkers left no room.
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