The Development of English Thought

revision of the chapter on "Power," in which he confronted the same difficulty that faces every one who analyzes a race ideal (172)(173).Locke subjected race ideals to a process analogous to that of the chemist or distiller.His method is well illustrated in his Beasondble- ness of Christianity, which provoked great opposition because it destroyed the concrete pictures of the Bible (173-175).13.The Deists, pp. 175-184.Viewed in connection with the practical work of Locke, deism is a stage in the development of religious thought beginning with Locke and ending with Wesley (175).The Deists were not attackingChristianity, but superstition, their premises being derived fromLocke's principle of correspondence ( 176).The Reformation had changed ideas with regard to the New Testament, but had not altered CONTENTS xxi ists to combat reforms they disliked (277).The struggle for com- mand of the wheat supply was the real cause of the shifting of national power (278).This struggle was intensified by the prevalence of the theory that individual and national welfare were measured by the consumption of bread (280-281).In England the struggles for liberty, for comfort, and for equality took place in different epochs, and development therefore was orderly (281).In France the attempt to satisfy these three popular demands in one epoch led to a sharp break with the environment, and resulted in instability and revolution (281)(282) .The slow increase of productive power in France caused the masses to confiscate the funded income of the wealthier classes ; but as this was insufficient to satisfy the new standards of comfort, attempts were made to obtain the surplus of other nations (283)(284)(285) .The greater resources and prosperity of England prevented the success of this movement (285)

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