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CONTENTS

Vicissitudes of Whigs and Tories

Not true that the parties have exchanged their principles

The Revolution much more due to special than to general causes

Many general influences had long been inimical to Freedom

The decline of the yeomen

Restrictions on the political influence of the commercial classes
Subserviency of the Judges

Intellectual tendency towards despotism

Growth of the doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings

Summary of the causes of the Revolution

Skill with which the Whig leaders availed themselves of their
opportunities

Part played by general and particular causes in history

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Strong warlike feeling. Dissolution of Parliament and triumph of

the Whigs

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