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Thus I thinke   [c. 1686-88?]

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke c. 28, ff. 143-144^v.

Description:   A paper in Locke’s hand, titled “Thus I thinke.” The date is uncertain. The manuscript is written on two sheets of paper folded once to form a quire of 8 pages; the text is written on p. 1-4 (numbered by Locke); the conjugate leaves (ff. 153-154) are blank. Quired inside these sheets is the paper “Of ethick in general.”

Publications:

1. The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 304-305; London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830. – v. 2:120-122.
2. “Biographical department – John Locke.” // IN: Monthly repository and library of entertaining knowledge. – 3 (1832/33):414-420. – Reprinted from King.
3. The life of John Locke / by H.R. Fox Bourne. – London : H.S. King ; New York : Harper, 1876. – v. 1:164-165.
4. John Locke, a biography / by Maurice Cranston. – London ; New York : Longmans, Green, 1957. – p. 123-124.
5. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 296-297. [Locke #867+]
6. Drafts for the Essay concerning human understanding, and other philosophical writings. Volume 3 / John Locke ; edited by Paul Schuurman. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, forthcoming. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke)

Discussions:   Von Leyden, Introduction to Essays on the law of nature (1954), p. 69-73; Cranston, publication #4 above, p. 124; Goldie, publication #5 above, p. 296.

Of ethick in general   [c. 1686-88?]

Location:   Bodleian Library, MS. Locke c. 28, ff. 146-152.

Description:   A paper with the title “Of ethick in general” and the caption (f. 146) and endorsement (f. 154^v) “Ethic.” It is mostly in Locke’s hand, but with some passages copied from Draft B of the Essay by Sylvester Brounower. It is marked to be inserted at Book IV, chapter xxi of the Essay, but was never used. The date is uncertain, although Von Leyden suggests a date late in Locke’s stay in Holland, c. 1687.

The manuscript consists of four sheets of paper, each folded once to form a quire of 16 pages. The first leaf and the last page are blank. The sheets are quired within the sheets on which the paper “Thus I thinke” is written (ff. 143-144, 153-154).

Publications:

1. [incomplete] The life of John Locke : with extracts from his correspondence, journals and common-place books / by Lord King. – London : H. Colburn, 1829. – p. 306-312; London : H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830. – v. 2:122-133.
2. Political essays / Locke ; edited by Mark Goldie. – Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997. – p. 297-304. [Locke #867+]
3. Writings on religion / John Locke ; edited by Victor Nuovo. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, 2002. – p. 9-14 [Locke 867+]
4. Drafts for the Essay concerning human understanding, and other philosophical writings. Volume 3 / John Locke ; edited by Paul Schuurman. – Oxford : Clarendon Press, forthcoming. – (The Clarendon edition of the works of John Locke)

Discussions:   Von Leyden, Introduction to Essays on the law of nature (1954), p. 69-73; G. H. Moulds, “The ‘right’ and the ‘good’ in Locke’s writings” (1972); Biddle, “A further note on that ‘puzzling point’ ” (1975); Goldie, publication #2 above, p. 297-298; Nuovo, publication #3 above, p. xxvii-xxxviii.