"SECOND TREATISE OF GOVERNMENT" - читать интересную книгу автора (Locke John)

TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT.
IN THE FORMER THE FALSE PRIN-
CIPLES AND FOUNDATION OF SIR
ROBERT FILMER AND HIS FOL-
LOWERS ARE DETECTED AND
OVERTHROWN.
THE LATTER IS AN ESSAY CON-
CERNING THE TRUE ORIGINAL
EXTENT AND END OF CIVIL
GOVERNMENT.




1764 EDITOR'S NOTE

The present Edition of this Book has not only been collated with
the first three Editions, which were published during the
Author's Life, but also has the Advantage of his last Corrections
and Improvements, from a Copy delivered by him to Mr. Peter
Coste, communicated to the Editor, and now lodged in Christ
College, Cambridge.




PREFACE

Reader, thou hast here the beginning and end of a discourse
concerning government; what fate has otherwise disposed of the
papers that should have filled up the middle, and were more than
all the rest, it is not worth while to tell thee. These, which
remain, I hope are sufficient to establish the throne of our
great restorer, our present King William; to make good his title,
in the consent of the people, which being the only one of all
lawful governments, he has more fully and clearly, than any
prince in Christendom; and to justify to the world the people of
England, whose love of their just and natural rights, with their
resolution to preserve them, saved the nation when it was on the
very brink of slavery and ruin. If these papers have that
evidence, I flatter myself is to be found in them, there will be
no great miss of those which are lost, and my reader may be
satisfied without them: for I imagine, I shall have neither the
time, nor inclination to repeat my pains, and fill up the wanting
part of my answer, by tracing Sir Robert again, through all the
windings and obscurities, which are to be met with in the several
branches of his wonderful system. The king, and body of the
nation, have since so thoroughly confuted his Hypothesis, that I
suppose no body hereafter will have either the confidence to
appear against our common safety, and be again an advocate for