Of the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke

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英語

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Complete work

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Written by the author

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES €hxtu)im fnss Btfm LOCKE'S CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING FOWLER a Honbon HENRY FROWDE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE 7 PATERNOSTER ROW LOCKE'S CONDUCT OF THE UNDERSTANDING / IVITH INTRODUCTION, NOTES, ETC. BY THOMAS FOWLER, M.A. '■o/essor of Logic in the Unii'ersity of Oxford; Fello7v of Lincoln College AT THE CLARENDON PRESS i MDCCCLXXXI [ All rights resetted ] PREFACE. Locke's tract or rather chapter ' Of the Conduct of the Understanding,' though often praised, and occa- sionally republished in a separate form, has never been edited with notes. It is thought that such assistance as is offered to the student in this edition may cause it to be more widely read and more generally useful. The testimony accorded to this book by Hallam, in his Introduction to the Literature of Europe, may fittingly occupy a position in its editor's preface : — The testimony accorded to this book by Hallam, in his Introduction to the Literature of Europe, may fittingly occupy a position in its editor's preface : — 'I cannot think any parent or instructor justified in neglecting to put this little treatise in the hands of a boy about the time when the reasoning faculties become developed. It will give him a sober and serious, not flippant or self-conceited, independency of thinking ; and, while it teaches how to distrust ourselves and to watch those prejudices which necessarily grow up from one cause or another, will inspire a reasonable confidence in what he has well considered, by taking off a little of that deference to authority which is the more to be regretted in its excess that, like its cousin-german, party-spirit, it is frequently united to loyalty

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