 He was the culmination of 2,000 years of Western civilization. When you're looking at Aristotle, who talks about natural law, that's mentioned in the preamble. Right, sure, of course. You look at Thomas Aquinas, who said that God creates natural law. John Locke, one of the English philosophers, who talks about life, liberty, and property, and the consent of the governed. Right. Thomas Hobbes, in the same century, who's writing about nature's law has made man equal. Right.