All this is of defect; and yet excusably.

For it needed the demonstration by Darwin of the kinship of man and beast for us to see the real substance of Aristotle's vision that man is embedded in political society.
V Once Locke's work had become known, its reputation was secure.

Not, indeed, that it was entirely welcome to his generation.

Men were not wanting who shrank from his thoroughgoing rationalism and felt that anything but reason must be the test of truth.

Those who stood by the ancient ways found it easy to discover republicanism and the roots of atheistic doctrine in his work; and even the theories of Filmer could find defenders against him in the Indian summer of prerogative under Queen Anne.