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makes the book an oddity only.1163 Investigating that gentle
communist of the civil wars, Gerald Winstanley, Hudson not
surprisingly finds him to have been an oldfashioned prophet,
not a premature disciple of Marx.1163 Of Locke's social think-
ing, his writings on education are possibly the most representa-
tive.1170 A jump into the nineteenth century. Houghton uses
belletristic writings in order to discover the emotional, intellec-
tual and moral tenets of the middle and upper layers of
Victorian society.1171 Burrow, more precisely and very suc-
cessfully, analyses the socio-political consequences of Darwin-
ism.1172 Here, too, biography has made its inroads, and five
books on opinion-makers of the day shall be cited: on the
insufferable Cobbett, propagandist and journalist of genius;1178
on the radical blue-stocking Harriet Martineau, no more bear-
able;1174 on the delightful Bagehot, whose opinions, so well
expressed, have been the more enduringly influential because
of their lack of depth;1175 on the explosive essayist Leslie
Stephen who sired both the D.N.B. and Virginia Woolf;1176

1168 Anthony Esler, The Aspiring Mind of the Elizabethan Towgtr

Generation. Durham N.C.: Duke UP: 1966. Pp. xxiv, 266. Rev:

/Krf53, loof.
n«* \Vinthrop S. Hudson, 'The economic and social thought of

Gerrard Winstanley', JMH 18 (1946), 1-21.
"»°J. L. Axtell, ed., The Educational Writings of John Locke. CUP:

1968. Pp. xvi, 442. Rev: Hist 54, i03f.
11*1 W. E. Houghton, The Victorian Frame of Mind. New Haven: Yale

UP: 1957. Pp. xvii, 467. Rev: EHR 74, issff.

1172 John W. Burrow, Evolution and Society: a study in Victorian social
tfwght. CUP: 1966. Pp. xvii, 295. Rev: EHR 83, 4i8f.

1173 John W. Osborne, William Cobbett: his thought and his time. New
Brunswick NJ.: Rutgers UP: 1966. Pp. x, 272. Rev: EHR 83,
629.

1174 Robert K. Webb, Harriet Martineau: a radical Victorian. L:
Heinemann: 1960. Pp. xiii, 385. Rev: EHR 77, 395f.; HJ 3,

ii7 s jsjonnan St John Stevas, Walter Bagehot: a study of Ms life and
thought, together with a selection from his political writings. L: Eyre &
Spottiswoode: 1959. Pp. xvi, 485.

1178 Noel Annan, Leslie Stephen: his thought and character in relation to Ms
time. L: MacGibbon & Kee: 1951. Pp. viii, 342.