So, too, fifty years before, Hobbes had argued for an absolute dominion lest the ambitions and desires of men break through the fragile boundaries of the social estate.
The answer is clear enough; and, indeed, the case against the Nonjurors is nowhere so strong as on its political side.

Men cannot be confined within the limits of so narrow a logic.

They will not, with Bishop Ken, rejoice in suffering as a doctrine of the Cross.

Rather will oppression in its turn arouse a sense of wrong and that be parent of a conscience which provokes to action.

Here was the root of Locke's doctrine of consent; for unless the government, as Hume was later to point out, has on its side the opinion of men, it cannot hope to endure.