CHAPTER XXX.

HISTORY OF MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND OF JURISPRUDENCE FROM 1650 TO 1700.

Casuistry of the Jesuits 744 Pascal’s Provincial Letters 744 Their Truth questioned by some 744 Taylor’s Ductor Dubitantium 745 Its Character and Defects 745 Cudworth’s immutable Morality 745 Nicole--La Placette 746 Other Writers 746 Moral System of Spinosa 746 Cumberland’s De Legibus Naturæ 747 Analysis of Prolegomena 748 His Theory expanded afterwards 749 Remarks on Cumberland’s Theory 752 Puffendorf’s Law of Nature and Nations 753 Analysis of this Work 754 Puffendorf and Paley compared 757 Rochefoucault 757 La Bruyère 758 Education--Milton’s Tractrate 758 Locke on Education--Its merits 759 And Defects 759 Fenelon on Female Education 761 Puffendorf’s Theory of Politics 762 Politics of Spinosa 764 His Theory of a Monarchy 766 Amelot de la Houssaye 766 Harrington’s Oceana 766 Patriarcha of Filmer 767 Sydney’s Discourses on Government 767 Locke on Government 768 Observations on this Treatise 771 Avis auz Refugiéz, perhaps by Bayle 772 Political Economist’s 772 Mun on Foreign Trade 773 Child on Trade 773 Locke on the Coin 773 Statistical Tracts 774 Works of Leibnitz on Roman Law 775 Civil Jurists--Godefroy--Domat 775 Noodt of Usury 776 Law of Nations--Puffendorf 776