For Hobbes cared nothing for the contract so long as strong government could be shown to be implicit in the natural badness of men, while Locke assumed their goodness and made his contract essential to their opportunity for moral expression.

Nor did he, like Rousseau, seize upon the organic nature of the State.

To him the State was always a mere aggregate, and the convenient simplicity of majority-rule solved, for him, the vital political problems.

But Rousseau was translated into the complex dialectic of Hegel and lived to become the parent of theories he would have doubtless been the first to disown.

Nor was Locke aided by his philosophic outlook.