Harold J. Laski: “Clearly, so far as consistency is in question, the Nonjurors might with justice contend that they had right on their…”

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

But we cannot understand the eighteenth century, or its theories, unless we realize that its temper was still dominantly aristocratic.

The theory of a state of nature, with the rights therein implied, is the contribution, through Stoicism, of the Roman lawyers, and the great medieval contrast to Aristotle's experimentalism.

If he stands alone, he has neither the knowledge nor the power to secure for himself proper protection.