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these studies. Using the help of 'literary' writers, Greenleaf
discerns two very different lines in English political thought
before Locke of which that relying on a mechanistic empiricism
survived, while that confident in the existence of organic
development disappeared for a long time.^1134
However, Locke certainly brought peace. Every effort to
make more of Bolingbroke than a purveyor of mostly tedious
commonplaces encounters the subject's lack of co-operation,
but Kramnick scores a measure of success where Hart and
Jackman cannot be said to have got very far.^1133 On Hume,
whose ideas and mind were so much more original, we have
no serious study in English, though Mossner supplies a use-
fully complete biography (with too many lapses into solemnity
and roguishness),^1136 while Bongie amusingly describes the
uses to \vhich the French counter-revolutionaries could put
Hume's mixture of scepticism and loyalty to the Stuarts.^1137
The only attempt to study his ideas which is worthy of the
man was made by an Italian scholar.^1138 Burke, on the other
hand, has proved devastatingly popular, and the biblio-
graphical report by Bryant is already quite insufficient^113*
The chief reason for all this is the opening of the Burke archive
which Cone, for instance, has energetically exploited to write
ii34 \\r^ jj. Greenleaf, Order, Empiricism and Politics: two traditions of
English political thought, 1500 - 1700. L: OUP: 1964. Pp. vii, 299.
Rev: HJ 9, is6ff; AHR 72, 7i_5f.
^1185 Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke and his Circle: the politics of nostalgia
in the age of Walpok. C (Mass.) : Harvard UP: 1968. Pp. xvi, 32 1 .
Rev: Hist 54, 284^ -Jeffrey Hart, Viscount Bolingbroke - Tory
Humanist. L: Routledge: 1965, Pp. xi, 169. - Sydney W. Jackman,
Man of Mercury: an appreciation of the mind of Henry St John, Viscount
Bolingbroke. L: Pall Mall Press: 1965, Pp. xi, 166. Rev: EHR 84,
^im Ernest C. Mossner, The Life of David Hume. Edinburgh: Nelson:
1954. Pp. xx, 683.
^1117 Lawrence L. Bongie, David Hume: prophet of the
O: Clarendon: 1965. Pp. xvii, 182. Rev: EHR 82,
ins q^ Giarizzo, David Hume politico e storico. Turin: Einaudi: 1962*
Pp. 277.
^m* Donald C. Bryant, 'Edmund Burke: a generation of scholarship
and discovery*, JBS 2 (1963), 91-114.