An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding

AN ESSAY CONCERNING HUMANE UNDERSTANDING

IN FOUR BOOKS

BY JOHN LOCKE

Quam bellum est velle confiteri potius nescire quod nescias, quam ista effutientem nauseare, atque ipsum sibi displicere. --Cic. De Natur. Deor. 1. i.

LONDON

Printed by Eliz. Holt, for Thomas Basset, at the George in Fleet Street, near St. Dunstan's Church.

MDCXC

CONTENTS

[Based on the 2d Edition]

EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE EARL OF PEMBROKE

THE EPISTLE TO THE READER

INTRODUCTION

BOOK I. NEITHER PRINCIPLES NOR IDEAS ARE INNATE.

I. NO INNATE SPECULATIVE PRINCIPLES II. NO INNATE PRACTICAL PRINCIPLES III. OTHER CONSIDERATIONS CONCERNING INNATE PRINCIPLES, BOTH SPECULATIVE AND PRACTICAL

BOOK II. OF IDEAS.

I. OF IDEAS IN GENERAL, AND THEIR ORIGINAL II. OF SIMPLE IDEAS III. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF SENSATION IV. IDEA OF SOLIDITY V. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF DIVERS SENSES VI. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF REFLECTION ... VII. OF SIMPLE IDEAS OF