Yet a man who refuses to admit that the constant dissatisfaction with those foundations his age expressed is the expression of serious ill in the body politic is wilfully blind to the facts at issue.
This statement critiques those who ignore the societal discontent of their time, suggesting a blindness to the underlying political issues.
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The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.
I can see no justice in such a denial of freedom.
Every religious body really means by blasphemy an attack upon its fundamental principles.
Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.
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