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John Locke on reading properly (Of the Conduct of the Understanding)


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John Locke (1632 - 1704) was an English philosopher. This piece is part of the long essay, Conduct of the Understanding, which was published posthumously in 1706. Among his other major works are An Essay Concerning Human Understanding and Two Treatises of Government.
Locke’s Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Thomas Fowler, D.D., Cambridge, Clarendon Press, 1901.
Portrait of Locke by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1697); State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia.
More on Locke at Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Locke
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