Yet he need not fear the comparison with the earlier thinker.

If Hobbes' theory of sovereignty is today one of the commonplaces of jurisprudence, ethically and politically we occupy ourselves with erecting about it a system of limitations each one of which is in some sort due to Locke's perception.

If we reject Locke's view of the natural goodness of men, Hobbes' sense of their evil character is not less remote from our speculations.

Nor can we accept Hobbes' Erastianism.

Locke's view of Church and State became, indeed, a kind of stepchild to it in the stagnant days of the later Georges; but Wesleyanism, on the one hand, and the Oxford movement on the other, pointed the inevitable moral of even an approximation to the Hobbesian view.