glad fhould be blotted out by your hand. But this between us.

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Among other things I would be glad to talk with you about before I die, is that which you fuggeft at the bottom of the first page of your letter. mightily concerned for the place meant in the queftion you fay you will afk the author of the treatife you mention, and with extremely well to it; and would be very glad to be informed by you what would be beft for it, and debate with you the ways to compofe it. Bat this cannot be done by letters; the fubject is of too great extent, the views too large, and the particulars too many to be fo managed. Come therefore yourfelf, and come as well prepared in that matter as you can. But if you talk with others on that point there, mention not me to any body on that fubject; only let you and I try what good we can do for those whom we with well to. Great things have fometimes been brought about from finall beginnings well laid together.

Pray prefent my most humble fervice to your brother: I should be glad of an Opportunity to do him fome fervice. That which he thanks me for, in my care about his difcourfe concerning the Chafers, was a fervice to the public, and he owes me no thanks for it. I am, dear Sir, your faithful and moft humble fervant.

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Mr. Molyneux to Mr. Locke.

Dublin, Sept. 20th, 1698.

Honoured dear Sir, ARRIVED here fafely the 15th inftant; and now that the ruffling and fatigue of my journey is a little over, I fit down to a task, which I must confefs is the hardest I was ever under in my life; I mean, expreffing my thanks to you fuitable to the favours 1 received from you, and fuitable to the inward fenfe I have of them in my mind. Were it poffible for me to do either, I fhould in fome mea

fure be satisfied; but my inability of paying my debts, makes me afhamed to appear before my creditor. However, thus much with the fricteft fincerity I will venture to affert to you, that I cannot recollect, through the whole courfe of my life, such signal inflances of real friendhip, as when I had the happiness of your

company for five weeks together in Lon don. It is with the greatest fatisfaction imaginable that I recollect what then paffed between us, and I reckon it the happieft fcene of my whole life. That part thereof efpecially which I paffed at Oates, has made fuch an agreeable imprefion on my mind, that nothing can be more pleafing. To all in that excellent family, I befeech you give my most humble refpects. It is my duty to make my acknowledgments there in a particular letter; but I beg of you to make my excufe for omitting it at this time, becaufe I am a little preffed by fome bufinefs that is thrown upon me fince my arrival; to which alfo you are obliged for not being troubled at prefent with a more tedious letter from, Sir, your moft obliged, and entirely affectionate friend and fervant.

LETTER LX. Mr. Locke to Mr. Molyneux. Dear Sir, London, Sept. 20th, 1698. YOURS of the 20th has now discharged

me from my daily employment of locking upon the weathercock, and hearkening how loud the wind blowed. Though I do not like this distance, and fuch a ditch betwixt us, yet I am glad to hear that you are fafe and found on the other fide the water. But pray you freak not in fo magnificent and courtly a ftyle of what you received from me here. I lived with you and treated you as my friend, and therefore ufcd no ceremony, nor can receive any thanks but what I owe you doubly, both for your company, and the pains you were at to bettow that hap pinefs on me. If you keep your word, and do me the fame kindness again next year, I fhall have reafon to think you va lue me more than you fay, though you fay more than I can with modeity read.

I find you were befet with bufiness when you wrote your letter to me, and do not wonder at it; but yet for all that I cannot forgive your filence concerning your health, and your fon. My fervice to him, your brother, and Mr. Burridge; and do me the juftice to believe that I am, with a perfect affection, dear Sir, your most humble and moft faithful fervant.

ftitution was owing to that ftrength of mind you afcribe to me, or accompanied with it, I fhould find therein, if not a remedy, yet a great relief against the infirmities of my body. However, I am not the lefs obliged to you for fo friendly an application; and if the cordial you prefcribe be not to be had (for I know none equal to a judicious and capacious mind), your kindness is not to be blamed, who I am confident with me that fatiffaction, or any thing elfe that could contribute to my health.

Sir,

LETTER LXV.
Dr. Molyneux to Mr. Locke.

Dublin, Nov. 4th, 1693. OR a-while I deferred making any reFor turn for the favour of your last letter, on the account I understood by one of yours to my brother, that I was fuddenly to expect another obligation from you, by the receipt of your Treatife of Education, which yesterday firit came to my hands; and now I return you my hearty thanks for both your kindneffes together, of which, fhould I exprefs the real thoughts I have, I fhould feem to run either into extravagant compliment, or grofs flattery: but thus much I must needs fay, that as your letter certainly contains, in fhort, the only true method for the profccuting the curing part of the practice of phyfic, and the fure way of improving it; a matter of the chiefeft good in relation to men's bodies; fo your Book of Education lays down fuch rules for the breeding of youth, as if followed muft neceffarily prove of the greatest advantage to the better part of man, the mind; by infenfibly difpofing it to an habitual exercife of what is virtuous and laudable, and the acquifition of all fuch knowledge as is neceffary for one's own good, or that of others whom we are to converfe with. Whence I cannot but think, had thofe of our own countries but a thorough perfuafion, and a right fenfe of the great benefit that redounds from a careful education, fo as univerfally to put it in practice, without question we fhould foon become a nation as remarkably different from the reft of the world for the inward endowments of our minds, and the rectitude of our manners, as the negroes are from the reft of mankind for

their outward fhape and colour of body. But this I fear is a happiness only to be wifhed for; however, he that makes it his endeavour to promote fo great a good, by fhewing the certain way to it, if they would follow him, juftly deferves the high esteem of all that know how to va lue a truly public fpirit.

I hope, Sir, you have your health better, and that we may fuddenly have abroad your Eifay of Human Underftanding, with thofe farther additions and alterations you have fome while fince defigned for the prefs: I am confident it is impatiently expected by all that are acquainted with your writings, and that pe culiar clear manner of delivering truth you are fo much mafter of, but by none more than, Sir, your most faithful humble fervant.

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LETTER LXVI.
From the fame to the fame.

Sir, Dublin, October 25th, 1697. SHOULD oftener make acknowledg ments to you for your favours, and exprefs the great efteem I bear you, but that this barren place affords little elfe to fay; and this I cannot think reafon enough to trouble one fo bufy and ufefully engaged as you always are. Yet I would not omit thanking you, by this worthy gentleman Mr. Berrisford, your acquaintance, for a prefent of a book I understand by my brother you defigned for me, though 1 was fo unlucky as to mifs of it; and alfo communicate to you the inclcfed letter, which the Bishop of Clogher was pleafed (perhaps out of his too partial friendship), to tell me deferved to be made public, and defired me accordingly to tranfmit it to Dr. Sloane: but this I would not do, unless it have your approbation alfo; fo that it is wholly at your difpofal to do with it as you please, as is likewife, Sir, your very affectionate friend, and humble fervant.

all the confolation can be given to one unexpectedly bereft of fo worthy and near a relation. Whatever inclination I may have to alleviate your forrow, I bear too great a fhare in the lofs, and am too fenfibly touched with it myself, to be in a condition to difcourfe you on this fubject, or do any thing but mingle my tears with yours. I have loft in your brother, not only an ingenious and learned acquaintance, that all the world esteemed; but an intimate and fincere friend, whom I truly loved, and by whom I was truly loved and what a lofs that is, thofe only can be fenfible who know how valuable and how scarce a true friend is, and how far to be preferred to all other forts of treasure. He has left a fon who I know was dear to him, and deferved to be fo as much as was poffible for one of his age. I cannot think myfelf wholly inca. pacitated from paying fome of the affection and fervice was due from me to my dear friend, as long as he has a child er a brother in the world. If therefore there be any thing at this distance whereEl in my little sphere may be able to ferve your nephew or you, I beg you, by the memory of our deceafed friend, to. let me know it; that you may fee, that coewno loved him to well cannot but be trderly conserved for his for, nor be Czerwile than I am, Sir, your m of humMe and moé affectionate fervant,

an impreffion on me, whofe profe fion leads into fo thorough a familiarity with it; but I find a paífionate affection furmounts all this, and the tecum obcam lubens, though it was the expresion of a poet, yet I am fenfible was a very naturalone where we love extremely, and the Indians prove it no lefs in fact. Could any outward circumftance of his life have increafed that brotherly affection I had for him, it must have been that he had fo great a part in your friendfhip, who must be allowed to have a nice judgment in difcerning the true characters and. worth of men. He frequently in his life-time has expreffed to me with great complacency of mind, how happy he thought himself in your acquaintance, and he fpoke of you feveral times during his fhort fickness, with great respect, With his own hand he has writ this claufe in his will: "I give and bequeath to my "excellent friend John Locke, Esquire, "author of the Eifay concerning Human "Understanding, the fum of five pour da "to buy him a ring, in memory of the "value and efteem I had for him." This I fhali take care to fend you in a bil by Mr. Churchill's hands, when he fates the account as it fads between him and my brother. The only child he has left behind him, is under ry care and management. I fall endeavour to dl charge tris truk, with 2lt sag 14 % my broter's memory, and the duvaltaze of his c I can: bar is geves me to think that i muå forely for my much fort of wat extraordinary way. cation and prudence as father woli have fhews in his education; for se ne is the chiefet, and kind the y Lab of B's life. i lave r

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