The great English philosopher, John Locke, wrote a revolutionary book called Two Treatises of Government. It was most surely revolutionary. First published anonymously a year after the Glorious Revolution of 1688, it was assumed to be an ex post justification for the revolution that resulted in James II abdicating.
In fact, it was only discovered in about 1945 that Locke wrote the book at least ten years prior to the Glorious Revolution; rather than an ex post justification for the Revolution, it had fuelled the sentiment among the English ruling class which led to the revolution that overthrew the Roman Catholic Stuart monarch.
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