We do not build Utopias; and the attempt to discover the eternal principles of political right invites disaster at the outset.

Yet that does not render useless, even for our own day, the kind of work Locke did.

In the largest sense, his questions are still our own.

In the largest sense, also, we are near enough to his time to profit at each step of our own efforts by the hints he proffers.
The point at which he stood in English history bears not a little resemblance to our own.

The emphasis, now as then, is upon the problem of freedom.