...representing that you struck at the heart of morality in a principle you laid down in your book on ideas, and designed to pursue in another book, and that I took you for a Hobbist" (Newton, quoted in Cranston 1957, 372). Locke's response, while sympathetic to Newton's personal troubles...

...(Cooper 1716: 39). Newton was forced to apologize to Locke for giving out that "you struck at ye roots of morality in a principle you laid down in your book of Ideas."6 Locke writes within two thought complexes. In one, he adopts a descriptive perspective on...

...himself, the forgiveness of Locke, for this injustice done to his character. " I beg your pardon (says he) for representing that .you struck at the root of morality...another book ; and that I took you for a Hobbist." In the same letter Newton alludes to certain unfounded suspicions which he had been led to entertain...

...what you have done is just, and I beg your pardon for my having hard thoughts of you for it, and fur representing that you struck at the root of morality, in a principle you laid in your book of ideas, and designed to pursue in another book, and that I took you for a Hobhiet. I...