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Locke is also famous for his theory of the tabula rasa, or "blank slate", which he is said to have first conceived while spending many hours of fruitless effort on a math problem as a boy.  

Locke is also famous for his theory of the tabula rasa, or "blank slate", which he is said to have first conceived while spending many hours of fruitless effort on a math problem as a boy.  

==Early Life==

==Early life==

John Locke was born at Wrington, to m. W. of Belluton, in Somersetshire, on the 29th of August 1632, six years after the death of Bacon, and three months before the birth of Spinoza. His father was a small landowner and attorney at Pensford, near the northern boundary of the county, to which neighbourhood the family had migrated from Dorsetshire early in that century. The elder Locke, a strict but genial Puritan, by whom the son was carefully educated at home, was engaged in the military service of the parliamentary party. " From the time that I knew anything," Locke wrote in 1660, "I found myself in a storm, which has continued to this time." For fourteen years his education, more or less interrupted, went on in the rural home at Belluton, on his father's little estate, half a mile from Pensford, and 6 m. from Bristol. In 1646 he entered Westminster School and remained there for six years. Westminster was uncongenial to him. Its memories perhaps encouraged the bias against public schools which after-wards disturbed his philosophic calm in his Thoughts on Education.

John Locke was born at Wrington, to m. W. of Belluton, in Somersetshire, on the 29th of August 1632, six years after the death of Bacon, and three months before the birth of Spinoza. His father was a small landowner and attorney at Pensford, near the northern boundary of the county, to which neighbourhood the family had migrated from Dorsetshire early in that century. The elder Locke, a strict but genial Puritan, by whom the son was carefully educated at home, was engaged in the military service of the parliamentary party. " From the time that I knew anything," Locke wrote in 1660, "I found myself in a storm, which has continued to this time." For fourteen years his education, more or less interrupted, went on in the rural home at Belluton, on his father's little estate, half a mile from Pensford, and 6 m. from Bristol. In 1646 he entered Westminster School and remained there for six years. Westminster was uncongenial to him. Its memories perhaps encouraged the bias against public schools which after-wards disturbed his philosophic calm in his Thoughts on Education.

Reasonableness of Christianity have also gone through many editions, and been translated into different languages. The first collected edition of Locke's Works was in 1714, in three folio volumes. The best is that by Bishop Law, in four quartos (I777). The one most commonly known is in ten volumes (5812). The Eloge of Jean le Clerc (Bibliotheque choisie, 1705) has been the basis of the memoirs of Locke prefixed to the successive editions of his Works, or contained in biographical dictionaries. In 1829 a Life of Locke (2nd ed. in two volumes, with considerable additions, 183o), was produced by Peter, 7th Baron King, a descendant of Locke's cousin, Anne Locke. This adds a good deal to what was previously known, as Lord King was able to draw from the mass of correspondence, journals and commonplace books of Locke in his possession. In the same year Dr Thomas Foster published some interesting letters from Locke to Benjamin Furly. The most copious account of the life is contained in the two volumes by H. R. Fox-Bourne (1876), the results of laborious research among the Shaftesbury Papers, Locke MSS. in the British- Museum, the Public Record Office, the Lambeth, Christ Church and Bodleian libraries, and in the Remonstrants' library at Amsterdam. Monographs on Locke, by T. H. Fowler in 1880, in " English Men of Letters, ' and by Fraser, in 1890, in Blackwood's " Philosophical Classics " may be mentioned ; also addresses by Sir F. Pollock and Fraser at the bicentenary com-memoration by the British Academy of Locke's death, published in the Proceedings of the Academy (1904). See also C. Bastide, John Locke; ses theories politiques et leur influence en Angleterre (Paris, 1907) ; H. 011ion, La Philosophie generale de J. L. (1909).

Reasonableness of Christianity have also gone through many editions, and been translated into different languages. The first collected edition of Locke's Works was in 1714, in three folio volumes. The best is that by Bishop Law, in four quartos (I777). The one most commonly known is in ten volumes (5812). The Eloge of Jean le Clerc (Bibliotheque choisie, 1705) has been the basis of the memoirs of Locke prefixed to the successive editions of his Works, or contained in biographical dictionaries. In 1829 a Life of Locke (2nd ed. in two volumes, with considerable additions, 183o), was produced by Peter, 7th Baron King, a descendant of Locke's cousin, Anne Locke. This adds a good deal to what was previously known, as Lord King was able to draw from the mass of correspondence, journals and commonplace books of Locke in his possession. In the same year Dr Thomas Foster published some interesting letters from Locke to Benjamin Furly. The most copious account of the life is contained in the two volumes by H. R. Fox-Bourne (1876), the results of laborious research among the Shaftesbury Papers, Locke MSS. in the British- Museum, the Public Record Office, the Lambeth, Christ Church and Bodleian libraries, and in the Remonstrants' library at Amsterdam. Monographs on Locke, by T. H. Fowler in 1880, in " English Men of Letters, ' and by Fraser, in 1890, in Blackwood's " Philosophical Classics " may be mentioned ; also addresses by Sir F. Pollock and Fraser at the bicentenary com-memoration by the British Academy of Locke's death, published in the Proceedings of the Academy (1904). See also C. Bastide, John Locke; ses theories politiques et leur influence en Angleterre (Paris, 1907) ; H. 011ion, La Philosophie generale de J. L. (1909).

==See Also==

==See also==

* [[Classical liberalism]]

* [[Classical liberalism]]

* [[Jean Jacques Rousseau]]

* [[Jean Jacques Rousseau]]

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