Harold J. Laski: “For whoever hath such an authority of making laws is so far a king, and whoever can add new laws to those of Christ…”

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

But if the Church is not a supernatural institution, what is its nature?

Wilkes was a sign that the populace was slowly awaking to a sense of its own power.

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