Politics
The eighteenth century may be said to begin with the Revolution of 1688; for, with its completion, the dogma of Divine Right disappeared for ever from English politics. Its place was but partially filled until Hume and Burke supplied the outlines of a new philosophy. For the o...
The eighteenth century may be said to begin with the Revolution of 1688; for, with its completion, the dogma of Divine Right disappeared for ever from English politics. Its plac...
2. Chapter 2The English Revolution was in the main a protest against the attempt of James II to establish a despotism in alliance with France and Rome. It was almost entirely a movement of...
3. Chapter 3The Revolution of 1688 drew its main source of strength from the traditional dislike of Rome, and the eager desire to place the Church of England beyond the reach of James' aggr...
4. Chapter 4With the accession of George I, there ensued an era of unexampled calm in English politics, which lasted until the expulsion of Walpole from power in 1742. No vital questions we...
5. Chapter 5From Hume until the publication of Burke's _Present Discontents_ (1770) there is no work on English politics of the first importance. Walpole had fallen in 1742; but for the nex...
6. Chapter 6It is the special merit of the English constitutional system that the king stands outside the categories of political conflict. He is the dignified emollient of an organized qua...
7. Chapter 7The Industrial Revolution is hardly less a fundamental change in the habits of English thought than in the technique of commercial production. Alongside the discoveries of Hargr...
8. Chapter 89. Chapter 910. Chapter 1011. Chapter 1112. Chapter 1213. Chapter 1314. Chapter 14Bagehot, 9, 249 Barbeyrac, 68 Barrow, 84 Bellarmine, 83, 121 Bentham, 23, 62, 72, 151, 157, 175, 194 Berkeley, 10, 129 Blackstone, 163-4, 174f Bolingbroke, 69, 131f Bonald, 277...