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Oxford University Press, Ely House, London W. I MONTESQUIEU GLASGOW NEW YORK TORONTO MELBOURNE WELLINGTON CAPE TOWN SALISBURY IBADAN NAIROBI DAR I!S SALAAM LUSAKA ADDIS ·ABABA BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI LAHORE DACCA ..

' KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE HONG KONG TOKYO d Critical 'Biography By ROBERT SHAC.KLETON Fellow of Bras(Jfl()se College, Oxford . OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS TO MY MOTHER TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER © Oxford University Press 1961 Set by the Camelot Press Reprinted Lithographically in Great Britain by Alden & Mowbray Ltd at the Alden Press, Oxford From sheets of the first impression r963, r970 PREFACE IT is a rash enterprise, in the twentieth century, to write an account of the life and ideas of a man of many interests who lived before the age of specialization.

It requires a multiplicity of competences, scientific, philosophical, legal, historical, and literary, rarely to be found today in one man, and