Thomas More

[viii] all the attractiveness of works like Pilgrim’s Progress or Gulliver’s Travels, combined with a philosophy and political insight that give them a double claim to be considered Classics.

This section embraces such names as Grotius, Plato, Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Adam Smith, Hamilton, Madison, Jay, Walter Batgehot, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Machiavelli, as well as those builders of Ideal Governments, More, Bacon, Campanella and Rousseau.