Sir Thomas Hollis, on the eve of English Radicalism, published a noble edition of his book.

And there is perhaps a certain humor in the remembrance that it was to Locke's economic tracts that Bolingbroke went for the arguments with which, in the _Craftsman_, he attacked the excise scheme of Walpole.

That is irrefutable evidence of the position he had attained.
Yet the tide was already on the ebb, and for cogent reasons.

There still remained the tribute to be paid by Montesquieu when he made Locke's separation of powers the keystone of his own more splendid arch.

The most splendid of all sciolists was still to use his book for the outline of a social contract more daring even than his own.