accepted as the ulterior grounds of that cultural movement which culminated in the system of Natural Liberty, it is plain that tlie industrial and commercial experience of western Europe, and primarily of England, from the fifteenth to tlie eighteenth century, had much to do with the outcome of the movement in so far as natural liberty touches economic matters. It is as an outcome of this recently past phase of economic development that we have incorporated in the law,
cause and effect. Thia leaning to personal, workmanlike efficiency aa an ultimate term sbows itself even in the science of that time, e.g. la the quaai-personal character imputed to tba so-called "natural laws" wbieh then largely occupied scientific speculation ; similarly In the Romantic literature and political philosophy.
1 As tale as the close of the sixteenth century English law and nsage In the matter of loans for Inlerest