From the point of view of our discussion, the book as a response to political and literary circumstances, its origin belongs to the autumn and winter of 1678-80, exactly a decade earlier than it is traditionally supposed to have been written. Two Treatises is an Exclusion Tract, not a Revolution Pamphlet.


"Introduction," in John Locke, Two Treatises of Government (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Peter Laslett Quotes

From the point of view of our discussion, the book as a response to political and literary circumstances, its origin belongs to the autumn and winter ...

From the point of view of our discussion, the book as a response to political and literary circumstances, its origin belongs to the autumn and winter ...

From the point of view of our discussion, the book as a response to political and literary circumstances, its origin belongs to the autumn and winter ...

From the point of view of our discussion, the book as a response to political and literary circumstances, its origin belongs to the autumn and winter ...