Harold J. Laski: “His view of the individual as a never-ending source of fruitful innovation anticipates all the later Benthamite…”

That some sort of toleration was inevitable few, save a group of prejudiced irreconcilables, would have denied.

Montesquieu thus became the prophet of a new race of thinkers.

The theorist of the Revolution is Locke; and it was his conscious effort to justify the innovations of 1688.

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