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Two great antitheses dominate the political thought of all time: anarchy versus unity and oppression versus freedom (Bobbio, Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law Tradition, p. 29, 1909/1993). At no time in English history was the intellectual struggle between the two antitheses more pronounced, or more important for the future of the country.
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Rowley, C., Wu, B. (2014). The Seventeenth Century Philosophical Divide: Unity or Liberty. In: Britannia 1066-1884. Studies in Public Choice, vol 30. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04684-6_4
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