Category: Biographies
John Locke, perhaps the greatest, but certainly the most characteristic, of English philosophers, was born at Wrington, a pleasant village in the north of Somersetshire, August 29, 1632. His family, however, resided in the village of Pensford, and the parish of Publow, within...
In order to resume the thread of Locke's literary and domestic life, it is now necessary to go back two or three years. I have already spoken of no less than three literary cont...
13. CHAPTER VIII."Were it fit to trouble thee," says Locke in his Epistle to the Reader, "with the history of this _Essay_, I should tell thee that five or six friends meeting at my chamber, and...
11. CHAPTER VI.Notwithstanding his retirement to Oates, and his incessant literary activity, Locke never lost his interest in politics, and, as the friend and admirer of men like Monmouth, Som...
10. CHAPTER V.Shortly after Locke returned to England, he settled down in lodgings in the neighbourhood of what is now called Cannon Row, Westminster. But the fogs and smoke of London then, a...
9. CHAPTER IV.Locke must have landed in Holland in one of the autumn months of 1683, being then about fifty-one years of age. We are not able, however, to trace any of his movements till the...
8. CHAPTER III.The state of Locke's health had long rendered it desirable that he should reside in a warmer climate, and his release from official duties now removed any obstacle that there mi...
7. CHAPTER II.Locke, at the time of his father's death and his entrance on college office, was in his twenty-ninth year. At the election of college officers on Christmas Eve, 1662, he was tra...
14. CHAPTER IX.In the _Essay on the Human Understanding_, Bk. IV., ch. x., Locke attempts to prove the existence of a God, which, though God has given us no innate idea of Himself, he regards...
16. CHAPTER XI.Locke's two _Treatises of Government_ (published in 1690) carry us back into the region of worn-out controversies. The troublous times which intervened between the outbreak of t...
15. CHAPTER X.Locke's tractate on Education, though some of the maxims are reiterated with needless prolixity, abounds in shrewdness and common-sense. Taking as the object of education the pr...
6. CHAPTER I.John Locke, perhaps the greatest, but certainly the most characteristic, of English philosophers, was born at Wrington, a pleasant village in the north of Somersetshire, August...
17. CHAPTER XII.To trace Locke's influence on subsequent speculation would be to write the History of Philosophy from his time to our own. In England, France, and Germany there have been few wr...
2. CHAPTER IV.3. CHAPTER VII.1. CHAPTER III.4. CHAPTER IX.5. CHAPTER X.