Mr. Locke to Dr. Molyneux.
SIR,
Oates, Jan. 25, 169.
I HAVE been slower in returning you my thanks for the favour of your letter of the 26th of November, and the civilities you express to me in it, than perhaps I should have been. But the truth is, my thoughts never look towards Dublin now, without casting such a cloud upon my mind, and laying such a load of fresh sorrow on me for the loss of my dear friend, your brother, that I cannot without displeasure turn them that way; and when I do it I find myself very unfit for conversation and the entertainment of a friend. It is therefore not without pain that I bring myself to write you a scurvy letter. What there wants in it of expression, you must make up out of the esteem I have for the memory of our common friend; and I desire you not to think my respects to you less, because the loss of your brother makes me not able to speak them as I would.
Since you are pleased to put such a value on my trifles, I have given order to Mr. Churchill to send you my last reply to the bishop of Worcester, and the last edition of my treatise of Education, which came forth since Mr. Molyneux's death. I send this with the more confidence to you, because your brother told me more than once that he followed the method I therein offer to the world, in the breeding of his son. I wish you may find it fit to be continued to him, and useful to you in his education; for I cannot but be mightily concerned for the son of such a father, and wish that he may grow up into that esteem and character, which his father left behind him amongst all good men who knew him. As for my Essay concerning Human Understanding, it is now out of print, and if it were not, I think I should make you but an ill compliment in sending it you less perfect than I design it should be in the next edition, in which I shall make many additions to it: and when it is as perfect as I can
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make it, I know not whether in sending it you shall not load you with a troublesome and useless preBut since by desiring it you seem to promise me your acceptance, I shall as soon as it is reprinted take the liberty to thrust it into your study. I am,
sent.
Sir,
Your most humble and faithful servant,
JOHN LOCKE.
Ceremony, an excess of it con-
trary to good-breeding,
open air,
137, 138
Certainty, an Irish bishop's let-
ter against Mr. Locke's no-
tion of it,
439
Children, how a healthful con-
stitution should be preserved
in them,
7
should be inured to
cold and wet,
7-9
should be much in the
12
should not have their
clothes strait,
13
should eat but little
14
what diet fittest for
14, 15
should not drink often,
nor strong drink, 18, 19
what fruit is bad for'
them, and what good, 19, 20
what sleep should be
allowed them,
20, 21
should be used to
hard lodging,
21
flesh,
them,
physic, sparingly to
be given them,
26
are often taught ill
habits in infancy, 27-31
their eager craving
not to be complied with, 32,
&c.
41
53
Children, great care to be taken
of their company, 53, &c.
should be treated as
rational creatures,
69
Chronology, how to be learnt,
174, 175
Civil law, how young men should
be taught it,
176
Commendation, children chiefly
to be allured by it,
Company of their parents, ne-
cessary to children,
Complaints of children against
one another, not to be en-
couraged
99
Compulsion, in teaching, to be
avoided,
63, 122, &c.
Cooper, (sir Anthony Ashley)
was the first earl of Shaftes-
bury
266
his advice to king
Charles I. for putting an end
to the war,
ibid.
how his project was
frustrated,
267
goes over to the parlia-
269
his great candour to his
enemies,
270
several instances of his
extraordinary sagacity,
ment,
"
273, &c.
how he discovered ge-
neral Monk's design of set-
ting up himself,
280
was the cause of the re-
turn of king Charles II. 281
his letters to king
Charles, &c. 282, &c.
Costiveness; its ill effects on the
body,
23
how to be avoided,
ibid. &c.
Courage, to be early wrought in
children,
106
?
to be promoted, by
keeping children from frights,
ibid.
Craving of children not to be
complied with, 32, 33
how to restrain it,
94, &c.
how this restraining is
to be understood,
323
-
care should be exercised about
it,
27
Ethics, or morality, how best to
be taught young people,
176, &c.
the Gospel, a sufficient
377
system thereof,
F.
Fencing, has both its use and
danger,
192
Fool-hardiness, no less unrea-
sonable than cowardice, 105
Friend, the advantages of free
converse with a learned and
292
judicious one,
, the difficulty of finding
such an one,
354
Fruit, what fruit children should
be kept from, and what they
may be allowed to eat,
19
G.
172
Gentleman's Religion, the au-
thor of the book so called
commended,
370
Genus and Species, Mr. Locke's
notion of them explained, 305
Geography, how children may
be easily taught it,
Geometry, a good way of enter-
174
ing children into it,
God, what notions him should
be early instilled into chil-
dren,
128
Grammar, not so necessary in
learning languages as com-
monly thought, 160, 161
Greek tongue may be attained
without much difficulty by a
grown man,
187
Hardiness, children should be
110
early inured to it,
Health of the body, necessary
to a happy state in this world, 6
how
care should be
taken of it in educating chil-
dren,
7, &c.
History, how young persons
should be entered into it, 175
I.
Interruption of one speaking, a
branch of rudeness, 139
Justice, how children should be
101
inured to practise it,
L.
Habits, ill ones too often fixed
in children betimes, 27
good ones, should be
taught by practice, more than
by rules,
46, 47
Lambert, (major-general) his
attempt to seize sir Anthony
Ashley Cooper disappointed,
276
Languages better learned by
use, than by a multitude of
rules,
152, &c.
Latin tongue, much time ill
ibid.
spent in learning it,
how it may be
ibid.
easily attained,
Law, (of one's country) how
young men should learn it, 177
Learning, more ado than should
be is made about it, in edu-
cating children, 142, &c.
should be made a
sport to children, from the
first,
143
how it may be made
a play to children, 143, 144
by rote, children
should not be too much put
to it,
168, &c.
Le Clerc, vid. Locke, Molyneux.
Letters, (or epistles) what care
"
should be taken to instruct
youth how to write them, 180,
&c.
Liberality, how children should
100
be inured to it,
Linen manufacture, complaints
of knavery about it in Ireland,
389
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