John Hutton informed a friend that he was not less dangerous than Spinoza; and the opinion found an echo from the nonjuring sect.
But these, after all, were but the eddies of a stream fast burying itself in the sands.

For most, the Revolution was a final settlement, and Locke was welcome as a writer who had discovered the true source of political comfort.

So it was that William Molyneux could embody the ideas of the "incomparable treatise" in his demand for Irish freedom; a book which, even in those days, occasioned some controversy.

Nor is it uninteresting to discover that the translation of Hotman's _Franco-Gallia_ should have been embellished with a preface from one who, as Molyneux wrote to Locke,[9] never met the Irish writer without conversing of their common master.

How rapidly the doctrine spread we learn from a letter of Bayle's in which, as early as 1693, Locke has already became "the gospel of the Protestants." Nor was his immediate influence confined to England.