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The Essay concerning Human Understanding has passed through more editions than any classic in modern philosophical literature. Before the middle of the 18th century it had reached thirteen, and it has now passed through some forty editions, besides being translated into Latin, French, Dutch, German and modern Greek. There are also several abridgments. In addition to those criticisms which appeared when Locke was alive, among the most important are Leibnitz's Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain —written about 17oo and published in 1765, in which each chapter of the Essay of Locke is examined in a corresponding chapter by Leibnitz; Cousin's " Ecole sensualiste systeme de Locke," in his Histoire de la philosophie an X VIII' siecle (1829); and the criticisms in T. H. Green's Introduction to the Philosophical Works of Hume (1874). The Essay, with Prolegomena, biographical, critical and historical, edited by Professor Campbell Fraser and published by the Oxford Clarendon Press in 1894, is the only annotated edition, unless the Nouveaux Essais of Leibnitz may be reduced to this category. The Letters on Toleration, Thoughts on Education and The The rationale of probability means of  

The Essay concerning Human Understanding has passed through more editions than any classic in modern philosophical literature. Before the middle of the 18th century it had reached thirteen, and it has now passed through some forty editions, besides being translated into Latin, French, Dutch, German and modern Greek. There are also several abridgments. In addition to those criticisms which appeared when Locke was alive, among the most important are Leibnitz's Nouveaux Essais sur l'entendement humain —written about 17oo and published in 1765, in which each chapter of the Essay of Locke is examined in a corresponding chapter by Leibnitz; Cousin's " Ecole sensualiste systeme de Locke," in his Histoire de la philosophie an X VIII' siecle (1829); and the criticisms in T. H. Green's Introduction to the Philosophical Works of Hume (1874). The Essay, with Prolegomena, biographical, critical and historical, edited by Professor Campbell Fraser and published by the Oxford Clarendon Press in 1894, is the only annotated edition, unless the Nouveaux Essais of Leibnitz may be reduced to this category. The Letters on Toleration, Thoughts on Education and The The rationale of probability means of  

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 (Bibliothèque 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 (Bibliothèque 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).<ref>Fraser, Alexander Campbell (1911).  ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', 1911 edition</ref>

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