Excerpt from Readings in Political Philosophy The writer desires to make grateful acknowledgment for assist ance that has been received in the preparation of this volume. Professor William A. Dunning, of Columbia University, has generously supplied expert advice and criticism in all parts of the work, especially in the translations. Professor Edward G. Elliott, of Princeton University, contributed valuable counsel as to the general plan and scope of the work. The writer is indebted to Messrs. G. P. Putnam's Sons for the privilege of using the passages from Conway's edition of The Writings of Thomas Paine, and to the Delegates of the Clarendon Press for the selections from Montague's edition of Bentham's Fragment on Government and from Church's edition of. Book I of Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.