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OF MODERN KNOWLEDGE
No. 103
Editors:
HERBERT FISHER, M.A., F.B.A.
PROF. GILBERT MURRAY, LITT.D. LL.D., F.B.A.
PROF. J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A.
PROF. WILLIAM T. BREWSTER, M.A.
POLITICAL THOUGHT IN ENGLAND
FROM
LOCKE TO BENTHAM
BY
HAROLD J. LASKI
SOMETIME EXHIBITIONER OF NEW COLLEGE, OXFORD, OF THE
DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
AUTHOR OF STUDIES IN THE PROBLEM OF
SOVEREIGNTY AND AUTHORITY IN
THE MODERN STATE
NEW YORK
HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY
LONDON
WILLIAMS AND NORGATE
1920
NOTE
It is impossible for me to publish this book without some expression of the debt it owes to Leslie Stephen's History of the English Thought in the Eighteenth Century. It is almost insolent to praise such work; but I may be permitted to say that no one can fully appreciate either its wisdom or its knowledge who has not had to dig among the original texts.
Were so small a volume worthy to bear a dedication, I should associate it with the name of my friend Walter Lippmann. He and I have so often discussed the substance of its problems that I am certain a good deal of what I feel to be my own is, where it has merit, really his. This volume is thus in great part a tribute to him; though there is little that can repay such friendship as he gives.
H.J.L.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Sept. 15, 1919