[167] Essay, bk. iv, ch. xix. § 4. [↑]
[168] Tractatus Theologico-Politicus, c. 15. [↑]
[169] Third Letter to the Bishop of Worcester. [↑]
[170] Some Familiar Letters between Mr. Locke and Several of his Friends, 1708, pp. 302–304. [↑]
[171] Fox Bourne, Life of Locke, 1876, ii, 34. [↑]
[172] The first Letter, written while he was hiding in Holland in 1685, was in Latin, but was translated into French, Dutch, and English. [↑]
[173] Mr. Fox Bourne, in his biography (ii, 41), apologizes for the lapse, so alien to his own ideals, by the remark that “the atheism then in vogue was of a very violent and rampant sort.” It is to be feared that this palliation will not hold good—at least, the present writer has been unable to trace the atheism in question. For “atheism” we had better read “religion.” [↑]
[174] Second Vindication of “The Reasonableness of Christianity,” 1697, pref. [↑]
[175] Fox Bourne, Life of Locke, ii, 181. [↑]
[176] Son of the Presbyterian author of the famous Gangræna. [↑]