Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar.
- James Bonar
- Date:
- 1931
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young : lectures delivered in the Galtonian laboratory, University of London, under the Newmarch foundation, February 11 to March 18, 1929, with two additional lectures and with references to authorities, / by James Bonar. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![his book in 1654/ that it had three printers, that they finished their work in 1656, and that it appeared as a folio of 200 pages with the author’s name, in that year, dutifully dedicated to his Highness the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Though Harrington (according to 'Poland0) was present at the execution of Charles, and might surely have been above suspicion, there was a good deal in the book that might have caused searchings of heart to the Protector. In later years, after Cromwell’s death in 1658, and, when “suspect” at the Restoration of 1660, Harrington expressly declared that Cromwell was not his hero, he was never the man to introduce the Commonwealth of Oceana; he alone had the power to do it, but he wanted the will. It was certainly not of Cromwell’s kind; nor, I fear, could the most laboured special pleading procure favour for it with the restored King, Charles II. Leviathan would have been more to the King’s mind. Yet Harrington pleads against a critic in these later days: “the model [we should say this ideal government] is not proposed to show the truth of fact, or that there has been such exactly in practice, but to show the truth of nature, or that such a model is practicable, wherefore he [the critic] need not to have alledged that it has not the truth of fact, which we all know, but to show where it fails of such truth in nature as can in any way render it impracticable.”6](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29931782_0048.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
