But the deeper problems of the state lay hidden until Bentham and the revolutionists came to insist upon their presence.

That did not mean that the eighteenth century was a soulless failure.

Rather did it mean that a period of transition had been successfully bridged.

The stage was set for a new effort simply because the theories of the older philosophy no longer represented the facts at issue.
It was thus Locke only in this period who confronted the general problems of the modern State.

Other thinkers assumed his structure and dealt with the details he left undetermined.