He trusted too emphatically to the power of mechanisms to realize that institutions which allowed of such manipulation as that of George III could not be satisfactory once the people had awakened to a sense of its own power.

The real social forces of the time found there no channels of activity; and the difference between De Lolme and Bagehot is the latter's power to go behind the screen of statute to the inner sources of power.
IV The basis of revolutionary doctrine was already present in England when, in 1762, Rousseau published his _Contrat Social_.

With its fundamental doctrines Locke had already made his countrymen familiar; and what was needed for the appreciation of its teaching was less a renaissance than discontent.

So soon as men are dissatisfied with the traditional foundations of the State, a gospel of natural rights is certain to make its appearance.

And, once the design of George III had been made familiar by his treatment of Chatham and Wilkes, the discontent did not fail to show itself.