It needed the realization that the new doctrines were part of a vaster synthesis which swept within its purview the fortunes of Europe and America before they would give serious heed; and even then they met antagonism with nothing save oppression and hate.
Laski argues that recognition of new political doctrines was met with resistance and oppression.
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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
Liberty means self-government, and self-government means the right of every man to be his own legislator.
Yet such defects must not blind us to the general rightness of their insight.
But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.
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