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Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham

CHAPTER II
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Defoe in his _Original Power of the People of England_ made Locke the common possession of the average man, and offered his acknowledgments to his master.

Even the malignant genius of Swift softened his hate to find the epithet "judicious" for one in whose doctrines he can have found no comfort.

Pope summarized his teaching in the form that Bolingbroke chose to give it.

Hoadly, in his _Original and Institution of Civil Government_, not only dismisses Filmer in a first part each page of which is modelled upon Locke, but adds a second section in which a defence of Hooker serves rather clumsily to conceal the care with which the _Second Treatise_ had also been pillaged.

Even Warburton ceased for a moment his habit of belittling all rivals in the field he considered his own to call him, in that _Divine Legation_ which he considered his masterpiece, "the honor of this age and the instructor of the future"; but since Warburton's attack on the High Church theory is at every point Locke's argument, he may have considered this self-eulogy instead of tribute.


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