It was the ideas of the friars that found expression in the Baron's War." The Song of the Battle of Lewes "set forth unmistakably the conception of the official position of the King, and affirmed the right of his subjects to remove evil counsellors from his neighbourhood, and to remind him of his duty--ideas due to the political influence of the Franciscans."-- CREIGHTON, _Historical Lectures and Addresses_.
[71] The late Lord Acton pointed out that St.Thomas Aquinas was really the first Whig.
[72] See Introduction to Rousseau's _Social Contract_, by H.J.

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[73] "That which distinguishes the French Revolution from other political movements is that it was directed by men who had adopted certain speculative a priori conceptions with the fanaticism and proselytising fervour of a religious belief, and the Bible of their Creed was the _Contrat Social_ of Rousseau."-- LECKY, _England in Eighteenth Century_, Vol.

V.
"The original contract seized on as a watchword by Rousseau's enthusiasm grew from an arid fiction into a great and dangerous deceit of nations."-- Sir F.POLLOCK, _History of the Science of Politics_.
[74] Mr.H.J.

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Introduction to Rousseau's _Social Contract_.
[75] See Conway's _Life of Paine_, Vol.