exactly, as far as his age permits, to the rules you prefcribe, I mean as to forming his mind, and mattering his paflions. He reads very well, and I think it time now to put him forward to fome other learning. In order to this, I fhall want a tutor for him, and indeed this place can hardly afford me one to my mind. If therefore you know any ingenious man that may be proper for my purpofe, you would highly oblige me by procuring him for me. I confefs the encouragement I can propofe to fuch a one is but moderate, yet perhaps there may be fome found that may not defpife it. He should eat at my own table, and have his lodging, washing, firing, and candlelight in my houfe, in a good handfome apartment; and befides this, I thould allow him 201. per annum. His work for this fhould be only to inftruct three or four boys in Latin, and fuch other learning as you recommend in your book; I fay three or four boys, because perhaps I may have a relation's child or two; one who is my fifter's fon I have always, and do intend to keep as a companion to my own fon; and of more I am uncertain. But if there be one or two, that will be no great addition to his trouble, confidering, that perhaps their parents may recompenfe that by their gratuities. I mention to you, of the languages, only Latin; but, if I could obtain it, I fhould be glad he were alfo mafter of the French. As to his other qualifications, I fhall only fay in general, I could with them fuch as you defire in a tutor, to inftruct a young gentleman as you propose in your book. I would have him indeed a good man, and a good scholar; and I propofe very much fatisfaction to myfelf in the converfation of fuch a one. And becaufe a man may be cautious of leaving his native foil, and coming into a ftrange coun try, without fome certainty of being acceptable to thofe that fend for him, and of fome continuance and fettlement, I can fay, that I defign him to ftay with my fon to his ftate of manhood; whether he go into the univerfity, or travel, or whatever other ftate of life he may take to. And if perhaps on trial for fome time, he or I may not like each other, I do promile to bear his charges both to the SINCE E the receipt of yours of the fe cond inftant, I have made what enquiry I can for a tutor for your fon; moft likely, and the best recommended that I have met with, you will have an account of from himfelf in the inclofed, to which I need add little but these two things; 1ft, That Mr. Fletcher, who is a good judge, and a person whofe word I can rely on, gave me a very good character of him, both as to his manners and abilities, and faid he would be answer able for him: the other is, That however it comes to pafs, the Scotch have now here a far greater reputation for this fort of employment, than our own country. men. I am forry it is fo, but I have of late found it in many inftances. I wish the endeavours I have used to procure you a tutor for your fon, may be as fuccefsful as I defire. It is a bufines of a great concernment, to both you and your fon; but governors that have right thoughts concerning education are hard to be found. It is happy for your fon, that a good part of it is to be under your eye. I fhall be very glad if, in this cr any other occafion, I may be able to do you any fervice; for with great fincerity and refpect I am, Sir, your moft humble fervant. Sir, LETTER XLVII. From the fame to the fame. Oates, 34 September 1694 HAVE fo much the advantage in the bargain, if friendship may be called one, that whatfoever fatisfaction I find and from me, fo that he fhall be no lofer by his journey. I beg your answer to this at your lei- in yourself on that account, you must 12 you allow allow in me with a large overplus. The only riches I have valued, or laboured to acquire, has been the friendship of ingenious and worthy men, and therefore you cannot blame me if I fo forwardly laid hold of the first occafion that opened me a way to yours. That I have fo well fucceeded in it, I count one of my greatest happineffes, and a fufficient reward for writing my book, had I no other benefit by it. The opinion you have of it gives me farther hopes; for it is no fmall reward to one who loves truth, to be perfuaded that he has made fome difcoveries of it, and any ways helped to propagate it to others. I de, pend fo much upon your judgment and candour, that I think myfelf fecure in you from peevish criticism or flattery; only give me leave to fufpect, that kind nefs and friendship do fometimes carry your expreffions a little too far on the favourable fide. This, however, makes me not apprehend you will filently país by any thing you are not thoroughly fatisfied of in it. The cfe I have made of the advertisements I have received from you of this kind, will fatisfy you that I defire this office of friendship from you, not out of compliment, but for the tse of truth, and that your animadverfions will not be loft upon me. Any faults you fhall meet wits in reanging, in perfpicuity, in expretion, or of the prefs, I defire you to take notice of, and fend me word of; especially if you have any where any doubt: fir I am perfuaded, that, upon debate, you and I cannot be of two opinions; sor. I think, any two men used to think with freedom, who really prefer truth to spinlerrety, and a little foolish van-gay of not having made a mistake. I am very glad you were prouded of a tutor nearer home; and had tu particular good luck in it, that otherwis you had been difappointed, if ra Lad de pended on Mr. Gibbs, as a ter I wa to you from London about 2. I hope, acquainted you. I am, der your met affectionate, and most be invatn, ko. LETTER XLSXXX Dear Sir, negligence colder than that, having two I return, would overwhelm me with fhame, and hinder my enjoyment. And yet, if may confefs my fecret thoughts, there is not any thing which I would not give that fome other unavoidable occafion would draw you into England. A rational, free-minded man, tied to nothing bat truth, is fo rare a thing, that I al moft worth p fuch a friend; but when friendship is joined to it, and thefe are brought into a free converfation, where they inect, and can be together, what is there can have equal charms? I cannot but exceedingly with for that happy day when I may fee a man 1 have to often longed to have in my embraces. But yet, though it would endear the gift to receive it from his kindnefs, I cannot but with rather that fortune alone would throw him into my arms. This cold winter has kept me fo clofe a prifoner within doers, that, till yefterday, I have been abroad but once thefe three months, and that only a mile in a coach. And the inability I am in to breathe London air in cold weather, has hindered me yet from the happiness of waiting on Dr. Alhe; but I hope to get to London before he leaves it, that I may, to a perfon whom you have an elleem for, pay fome part of the refpects I owe you. I had last week the honour of a vifit from an ingerius gentleman, a member of your college at Dublin, lately returned from Turkey. He told me le was a kinfinan of yours; and though his other good qualities might have made him welcome any where, he was not, you may be fure, the left welcome to me, for being known and related to you. He feems to me to have been very diligent and curious in making obiervations while he has been abroad, and more inquisitive than most of our people that go into thofe parts and by the course I had with him the little time we were together, I promife myle'f we shall have a more exact account of thofe parts, in what I hope he intends to publish, than hitherto is ex aut. Dr. Huntington, who was for merly at Aleppo, and is my old acquaintnow my neighbour in this country, brought Mr. Smith hither with hon from his houfe: but yet I muit acknowk dge the favour to you, and defire you to thank hiva for it, when he returns to Dubn; for the niendship he knew you had for me, was, I take it, the great ance, and inducement that made him give himself the trouble of coming fix or seven miles in a dirty country. You do fo attack me on every fide with your kindness to my book, to me, to my fhadow, that I cannot but be ashamed I am not in a capacity to make you any other acknowledgment, but in a very full and deep fenfe of it. I return you my thanks for the corrections you have fent me, which I will take all the care of can in the next edition, which my bookfeller teils me he thinks will be his fummer: and if any other tall under your obfervation, I thall defire the continuance of your favour in communicating them. I must own to you, that I have been folicited from beyond fea to put my Efay into Latin; but you gufs right, I hate not the leifure to do it. It was once tranflated by a young man in Holland into Latin; but he was fo little mafter of the English or Latin tongue, that when it was thewed me, which he did not til he had quite done it, I fatisfied him that it would be very little for his credit to publish it, and fo that was laid by. Since that, my bookfeller was, and had been for fome time feeling for a tranflator, whom he would have treated with to have undertaken it, and have fatisfied for his pats: but, a little before the coming of your letter, he writ me word he had been difappointed, where he expected to have found one who would have done it, and was now at a lofs. So that what you call a bold, is not only the kindeft, but the mot feasonable propofal you could have made. You understand my thoughts as well as I do myfelf, and can be a fit judge whether the tranflator has expres them well in Latin or no, and can direct him where to omit or contract any thing, where you think I have been more luge than needed. And though in this I know you intend, as you fay, fome good to the world, yet I cannot but take it as a very particular obligation to myfelf, and hall hot be a little fatisfied to have my book go abroad into the world with the fronta of your judicious hand to it; for, as to omitting, adding, altering, tranfpong any thing in it, I permit it wholly to your judgment. And if there be ang thing in it defective, or which you think may be added with advantage to the de gu of the whole work, if you will le me know, I fhall endeavour to fupply that defect the best I can. The chapter of Identity and Diverfity, which owes its birth wholly to your putting me upon it, will be an encouragement to you to lay any the like commands upon me. I have had fome thoughts myself, that it would not be poffibly amifs to add, in lib. iv. cap. 18. fomething about Enthufiafm, or to make a chapter of it by itfelf. If you are of the fame mind, and that it will not be foreign to the bufinefs of my Effay, I promife you, before the tranflator you fhall employ fhall be got fo far, I will fend you my thoughts on that fubject, fo that it may be put into the Latin edition. I have alfo examined P. Malebranche's opinion, concerning "Seeing all things in God," and to my own fatisfaction laid open the vanity, inconfiftency, and unintelligiblenefs, of that way of explaining human understanding. I have gone almolt, but not quite through it, and know not whether I now ever fhall finish it, being fully fatisfied myself about it. You cannot think how often I regret the distance that is between us; I envy Dublin for what I every day want in London. Were you in my neighbourhood, you would every day be troubled with the propofal of fome of my thoughts to you. I find mine generally fo much out of the way of the bocks I meet with, or men led by books, that were I not confcious to myfelf that I impartially feek truth, I should be difcouraged from letting my thoughts loofe, which commonly lead me out of the beaten track. However, I want fomebody near me, to whom I could freely communicate them, and without referve lay them open. I thould find fecurity and ease in fuch a friend as you, were you within ditance; for your judgment would confirm and fet me at rest, where it approved, and your candour would excule what your judgment corrected, and fet me right in. As to your request you now repeat to me, I denre you to believe that there is nothing in your letters which I pass over Lightly, or without taking notice of; and if I formerly faid nothing to it, think it to be, that I thought it the best way of anfarring a friend whom I was resolved to deny nothing that was in my power. There are fame particular of ligations that re me up in the point, and its have drawn on me fome difpleafure for a time from fome of my friends, who made me a fomewhat like demand. But I expect to find you more reasonable, and give you this af furance, that you fhall be the firft that fhall be fatisfied in that point. I am not forgetful of what you fo kindly put me upon: I think nobody ought to live only to eat and drink, and count the days he fpends idly. The small remainder of a crazy life I fhall, as much as my health will permit, apply to the fearch of truth, and fhall not neglect to propofe to myself thofe that may be moft ufeful. My paper is more than done, and, I fuppofe, you tired; and yet I can fcarce give off. I am, dear Sir, your most faithful humble fervant. Sir, I LETTER XLIX. Mr. Locke to Mr. Molyneux. Oates, April 26, 1695. look with the eyes, and fpeak the γου language of friendship, when you make my life of much more concern to the world than your own. I take it, as it is, for an effect of your kindness, and fo fhall not accufe you of compliment ; the miflakes and over-valuings of goodwill being always fincere, even when they exceed what common truth allows. This on my fide I must beg you to believe, that my life would be much more pleasant and ufeful to me if you were within my reach, that I might fometimes enjoy your converfation, and, upon twenty occafions, lay my thoughts before you, and have the advantage of your judgment. cannot complain that I have not my fhare of friends of all ranks, aud fuch whofe interet, aliance, affection, and opinions too, in fit cafes, I can rely on. Bat methinks, for all this, there is one place vacant, that I know nobody that would fo well £ll as yourself: I want one near me to talk freely with, de quiliber ente; to propofe to, the extravagancies that rife in my mind; ore with whom I would debate feveral doubts and quations, to fee what was in them. one's felf is like digging is the mine; Meditating by it often, perhaps, brings up maiden earth, which never came near the light before; but whether it metal any in it, is never fo well tried 2 in conver fation wit koowing job.ous friend, who carries about him the true touchftone, which is love of truth in a clearthinking head. Men of parts and judgment the world ufually gets holds of, and by a great mistake (that their abilities of mind are lot, if not employed in the purfuit of wealth and power) engages them in the ways of fortune and intereft, which ufually leave but little freedom or leifure of thought for pure difinterefted truth. And fuen who give themfelves up frankly, and in earnest, to the full latitude of real knowledge, are not every where to be met with. Wonder not, therefore, that I with fo much for you in my neighbourhood; I fhould be too happy in a friend of your make, were you within my reach. But yet I cannot but with that fome bufinefs would once bring you within distance; and it is a pain to me to think of leaving the world, without the happiness of feeing you. I do not wonder that a kinfman of yours fhould magnify civilities that fearce deferve that name; I know not wherein they confifted, but in being glad to fee one that was any way related to you, and was hinfelf a very ingenious man; either of thofe was a title to more than I did, or could thew him. I am forry I have not yet had an opportunity to wait on him in London, and I fear he should be gone before I am able to get thither. This long winter and cold fpring has hung very heavy upon my gs, and they are not yet in a cafe to be ventured in London-air, which must be my excufe for not waiting upon him and Dr. Ahe yet. LETTER L. Mr. Lucke to Mr. Melyne x. Dear Sir, Oates, 24 July 1695. DID I not affure myself that our friend fhip were grown beyond fufpicion of compliment, Ihould think I should have need to make excufes to you for my long filence; but I know you will credit me, when I tell you it has been neither forgetfulness nor neglige. ce. The fpecimen of the tranflation you fent me gave me fome reafon to apprehend that Mr. Mullart's ftyle would lay too great a birden en your kindnefs, by often needing the correction of your hand, to make it ex prefs my fenfe with that clearness and eafinefs which I know you defire. My bookfeller therefore having before told me of one who had offered to undertake the tranflation of my Eifay, I have been ever fince endeavouring to get from him a fpecimen, that I might fend it you, and have your opinion which is like to do beit; and fo if this man had a talent that way, you might be eafed of the trouble which your friendship to me and zeal to the work, I forefee, is likely to lay upon you. But having the laft poft received this account from Mr. Churchill, that the gentleman propofed is in the country, and must have a book fent him down on purpofe before we can expect to fee any thing from him, and this being all to be managed by a third hand, who is not every day to be met with, I have refolved to lofe no more time on that thought, but accepting of your kind offer, put that whole matter into your hands, to be or dered as you fhall think beft, and fhall spend no more time in other enquiries, fince the gentleman you propofe will (as I remember you told me) be about this time at leifure to fet himself in earnest to it. There is one thing I would offer, which may be of advantage to him and the work too; and that is, that he would conftantly and fedulously read Tully, especially his philofophical works, which will infenfibly work him into a good Latin tyle. I have heard it reported of Bishop Sanderfon, that being asked how he came to write Latin fo well, as appears in the treatifes he publifhed in that tongue; he answered, by ordering his "itudies fo that he read over all Tully's "works every year." I leave it to you whether you will think fit to mention this to Mr. Mullart. The Abridgment of my Effay is quite finished: it is done by a very ingenious man of Oxford, a Maiter of Arts, very confluerable for his learning and virtue, who has a great many pupils. It is done with the fame defign you had in view when you mentioned it. He has generally (as far as I could remember) made ufe of my words: he very civilly fent it me when it was done, and, upon looking it over, 1 guefs you will approve of it, and think it well done. It is in Mr. Churchill's hands, and will be printed as foon |