For on Earth, who against Faith and Conscience can be heard infallible? Yet many will presume: whence heavie persecution. Translated by William Popple.

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
--- John Locke
Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
Two Treatises of Civil Government
John LOCKE (1632 - 1704)
The Two Treatises of Civil Government is a work of political philosophy published anonymously in 1689 by John Locke. The First Treatise is an extended attack on Sir Robert Filmer's Patriarcha, which argued for a divinely-ordained, hereditary, absolute monarchy. The more influential Second Treatise outlines a theory of civil...

Toleration is an English philosophy classic by John Locke. "For on Earth, who against Faith and Conscience can be heard infallible? Yet many will presume: whence heavie persecution."

A Letter Concerning Toleration John Locke Translated by William Popple A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke was originally published in 1689. Its initial publication was in Latin, though it was immediately translated into other languages. Locke's work appeared amidst a fear that Catholicism might be taking over England, and responds to the problem of religion and government by proposing religious toleration as the answer. This "letter" is addressed to an anonymous "Honored Sir" this was actually Locke's close friend Philipp van Limborch, who published it without Locke's knowledge. One...