Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Colver Lectures 1916: The American Conception of Liberty and Government Conception
While there was no justification in fact for this social contract theory and this doctrine of natural rights, their acceptance by thinking men did nevertheless havean important in?uence upon the development of thought and in that way upon the actual conditions of human life. For these theories were not only a philo sophical explanation of the organization of society; they were at the same time the result of the then exist ing social conditions, and like most such theories were also an attempt to justify a course of conduct which was believed to be expedient.
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