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THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF MR. John Locke.

Clerc; translated by T. F. P. Gent.

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE WRITINGS OF

(Adapted from Fraser's "Locke.")

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EPISTLE DEDICATORY

THE EPISTLE TO THE READER

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BOOK I. OF INNATE NOTIONS.

I.- Introduction.

By Le

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LOCKE

II. No Innate Principles in the Mind.*

II. No Innate Practical Principles.*

V.- Other Considerations Concerning Innate

Principles, Both Speculative and Practical.*

BOOK II. OF IDEAS.

I Of Ideas in General, and Their Original

II.— Of Simple Ideas.

III.- Of Ideas of One Sense

IV. Of Solidity

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V.— Of Simple Ideas of Divers Senses.

VI. Of Simple Ideas of Reflection.

VII. Of Simple Ideas of Both Sensation and

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Reflection.

Some Farther Considerations Concerning Our

Simple Ideas .

These chapters are not included in this edition of the Essay.

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XI.- Of Discerning, and Other Operations of the

Mind.

XII.- Of Complex Ideas.

XIII. Of Simple Modes, and First, of the Simple

Modes of Space.

XIV. Of Duration and Its Simple Modes.*

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XIX. Of the Modes of Thinking.

XX.- Of Modes of Pleasure and Pain.

XXI.- Of Power.

XXII.- Of Mixed Modes.*

XXIII.- Of Our Complex Ideas of Substances.

XXIV. Of Collective Ideas of Substances.

XXV.- Of Relation.

XXVI.- Of Cause and Effect and Other Relations.

XXVII.- Of Identity and Diversity

XXVIII.-Of Other Relations.*

XXIX.- Of Clear and Obscure, Distinct and Confused

Ideas.*

XXX.- Of Real and Fantastical Ideas.*

XXXI.- Of Adequate and Inadequate Ideas.*

XXXII.- Of True and False Ideas.*

XXXIII. Of the Association of Ideas.*

*These chapters are not included in this edition of the Essay.

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V. Of the Names of Mixed Modes and Relations.

VI. Of the Names of Substances.

VII.- Of Particles.

VIII.- Of Abstract and Concrete Terms.

IX. Of the Imperfection of Words.

X. Of the Abuse of Words.

XI.-Of-the Remedies of the Foregoing Imperfec-

tions and Abuses.

BOOK IV. OF KNOWLEDGE AND OPINION.

1.- Of Knowledge in General.

II. Of the Degrees of Our Knowledge.

III.

Of the Extent of Human Knowledge.

IV-Of the Reality of Human Knowledge.

V.- Of Truth in General.*

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VI.- Of Universal Propositions, Their Truth and

Certainty.*

VII.- Of Maxims.*

VIII- Of Trifling Propositions.*

IX.- Of Our Threefold Knowledge of Existence.

X.-Of Our Knowledge of the Existence of a

God.

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XI.- Of Our Knowledge of the Existence of

Other Things.

XII. Of the Improvement of Our Knowledge.*

XIII.- Some Farther Considerations Concerning Our

Knowledge.*

XIV. Of Judgment.*

XV. Of Probability.*

XVI. Of the Degrees of Assent.*

XVII-Of Reason.*

XVIII. Of Faith and Reason, and Their Distinct

*These chapters are not included in this edition of the Essay.

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THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF MR. JOHN

LOCKE,*

AUTHOR OF THE ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE
UNDERSTANDING.

Written in French, by Mr. Le Clerc, And done
into English, by T. F. P. Gent.

Mr. John Locke was the son of Mr. John Locke of Pensford, in Somersetshire, in the West of England: The Family had its rise at a Place call'd Channon Court, in Dorsetshire.

He was born at Wrington* (alias Wrinton) and according to the Parish-Register, was Baptiz'd, the 29th of August 1632. his Father was Heir to a much greater Estate, then he left behind him; and was a Captain in the Parliaments Army, in the Civil Wars under Charles the First: And it is very probable, that at that Time by the misfortunes of the War, he lost some Part of his Estate; for his Son us'd to speak of him, as a wise and sober Man; so that I can't think he either lost it by his Folly, or squander'd

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away by his Extravagance. Mr. Locke never mention'd his Parents, but with a great deal of Respect and Tenderness. Tho' they were young enough when they Married, yet they had but two Children, of which he was the Eldest. The other, who was also a Son, died of a Phthisick above 40 Years ago.

Mr. Lock's Father took great Care in his Educa

7 or 8 Miles South of Bristol.