THOMAS HILL GREEN FOUR LECTURES ON THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION, From Vol. III of Green’s _Works_, edited by R.L. Nettleship Longman, Green & Co., London, 1888 From the Editor’s Preface: The four lectures on ‘The English Revolution’ were delivered for the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution in January 1867; he did not intend them for publication, but they are printed on the recommendation of competent judges. ... I am also indebted to Mr. C.H. Firth for revising the lectures on ‘The English Revolution.’ OXFORD, August, 1888. Transcriber’s Note: Page numbers are the same as in the _Works_, so commence at {277}. All of the footnotes appear to have been added by the editor, and have been located under the paragraphs or quotations to which they relate, and renumbered accordingly, with a few transcriber’s notes, which are marked “Tr.” CONTENTS LECTURE I 277 LECTURE II 296 LECTURE III 323 LECTURE IV 345 LECTURE I. The period of which I am to speak is one of the most trodden grounds of history. It has not indeed the same intense attraction for an Englishman which the epoch of 1789 has for the Frenchman, for the interest in one case is purely historical, in the other it is that of a movement still in progress. Our revolution has long since run its round. The cycle was limited and belonged essentially to another world than that in which we live. Doubtless it was not insulated; its force has been felt throughout the subsequent series of political action and reaction, but the current along which European society is being now carried has another and a wider sweep. In the one we are ourselves too thoroughly absorbed to contemplate its course from without. From the other we have emerged far enough for our vision of it to be complete and steady.