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Content: They were getting more in return for their labor. People could buy manufactured items. Until the 1720s, England's population growth had been  held in check by periodic 
   harvest failures and by diseases such as influenza, smallpox, dysentery and 
   typhus. At around 5.25 million in 1720, England's population would be around 
   nine million at the end of the century.note9London's population in this period rose from around 700,000 to 
   over one million, a larger population than Paris. note10 
John Locke (above) and Thomas Jefferson. Locke died in 1704, but his influence lived on through the century. His views on liberty and politics influenced Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and others in the colonies. Jefferson was to write: " Bacon, Locke and Newton ... I consider them as the three greatest men that have ever lived, without any exception." ( The Letters of Thomas Jefferson: