That omnicompetence of Parliament which Bentham and Austin crystallized into the retort to Locke admits, in later hands, of exactly the amelioration he had in mind; and its ethical inadequacy becomes the more obvious the more closely it is studied.[5] [Footnote 5: Cf.

my _Problem of Sovereignty_, Chap.

I.] The internal limitation Locke suggested is of more doubtful value.
Government, he says, in substance, is a trustee and trustees abuse their power; let us therefore divide it as to parts and persons that the temptation to usurp may be diminished.

There is a long history to this doctrine in its more obvious form, and it is a lamentable history.

It tied men down to a tyrannous classification which had no root in the material it was supposed to distinguish.