Harold J. Laski: “Nor does its judgment preclude the individual duty to examine into the truth of things.”

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.

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

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

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.