The Correspondence of John Locke: Volume 3: Letters 849-1241 Covering the Years 1686-1689 (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke)
by: Locke, John Beer/ E. S. de

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket. A large part of the correspondence of John Locke is extant. The letters range in date from 1652 to 1704. They constitute the principle authority for Locke's biography, more especially in so far as they show his environment - material, intellectual, and spiritual. They bring together the ordinary course of his life and many of the great issues of his time. Locke had many interests, including medicine, education, discovery and expansion overseas, the foundations of government, and more especially religion, and the conciliation of Christian revelation with the contemporary advances in scientific knowledge and thought. The Enlightenment is coming into being; here its emergence can be watched through the eyes of its great progenitor. This is Volume 3 only of an 8 volume set. 800 pages. Two ink stamps on inside front cover, otherwise clean.