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Excerpt from Harrington and His OceanaMY attention was drawn to the ideas of Harrington when I was studying the history of toleration in the Stuart period. It appeared to me that his in¿u ence in England and in her colonies, both at his own time and since, deserved a fuller examination than it had yet received. My tenure of the Allen Scholarship in 1911 enabled me to make some researches both in England and America, which I have brought togeth...
Excerpt from Harrington and His Oceana
The exact date of his return to England is not known. At any rate he was back before the outbreak of the Civil War, equipped with a peculiar training. He had received hospitality from monarchs. He had travelled over the continent at the time of the great unrest and disorder, which spread over the whole of western Europe in the train of the Thirty Years' War. He had witnessed something of the great religi...
