the great advantage of pro-
moting it,
Locke (Mr. John), his letters to se-
veral of his friends, 289, &c.
writes to Mr. Molyneux about
the earthquake on September 8,
1692,
295
concerning some mistakes in
his remarks on the essay, 302
corrects some passages in his
essay, about the possibility of
matter's thinking, 303. finds it
difficult to reconcile God's om-
niscience and man's liberty, 305,
and yet is sure of both, ibid.
his explication of genus and
species,
ibid.
his low opinion of the com-
mon logic,
306
informs Mr. Molyneux of his
new account of freedom, 317,
&c.
asserts the necessity of child-
ren's diversion, 323, 324. de-
sires Mr. Molyneux to use his
son hardily,
gives him a short account of
his chapter on what determines
the will,
325, &c.
explains his judgment of pu-
nishing a man for a fault com-
mitted when drunk, 329. ap-
proves Mr Molyneux's distinc-
tion between a drunken and a
frantic man,
336
desires Mr. Molyneux to su-
pervise a Latin translation of his
essay, 356. signifies his thoughts
of adding something in it, about
enthusiasm,
ibid.
commends the often reading
of Tully, for gaining a good
Latin style, 359, 360. instances
a gentlewoman, who taught her
child Latin, without knowing it
herself when she began,
his argument from the
impenetrability of bodies, an-
swered,
215, &c.
his mistake about seeing
a cube and an object vastly dis-
tant, 218.-his mistake about the
mind's producing ideas, ibid.
his strange notion that
ideas of material things are spi-
ritual things,
219
it is hard, according to
his notion, to prove a real sun,
221
his saying, that material
things are in God after a spiritual
manner, unintelligible, 222
the obscurity of his say.
ing, that God is the place of
spirits,
222, 223
his notion that we think
upon all things, before we think
on any particular thing, not true,
the unreasonableness of
his asserting, we cannot desire to
see any thing, unless we, in part,
see it already,
226
he at length resolves all
into the pleasure of God, 228
his mistake in saying we
have the idea of infinite before
that of finite,
230, 231
seems to affirm directly
contrary to St. Paul,
232
groundlessly denies that
we smell, or feel, things in God,
though we see them in him, 233
his four ways of know-
ibid.
ing things, confuted,
his notion of universal
reason, in what sense true, 250
the unsurmountable dif-
ficulty which attends his opi-
nion,
Manners, children should be taught
good ones, rather by examples
than rules,
Matter, Mr. Locke's notion of it
explained,
303, 304
Meals, of children, should not be
constantly kept to a certain hour,
17
Merchants accompts, gentlemen
should be skilled therein, 199
Method, a good one necessary in
all learning,
190
Minds, the general reason why the
soundest minds have usually the
most sickly bodies,
461
Miracles, the definition of them,
and a discourse about them,
256
what proves extraordinary
operations to be real miracles,
259
the only case wherein real
miracles may be expected, 262
the occasion of writing the
discourse on miracles, 265
Money, several authors mentioned,
who have written about it, 366,
369, 370
the clipping of it, almost
376
brought us to ruin,
a law made to prevent clip-
ped money from passing, ibid,
Morality, vide Ethics.
Molyneux, (Mr.) his letters to
Mr. Locke,
290, &c.
desires Mr. Locke to write
a treatise of morality,
Molyneux writes to Mr. Locke,
that the earthquake of 1692 was
not felt at Dublin,
296
desires him to publish a
logic upon the principles of his
essay,
298
desires him to put margi-
nal notes in the second edition
of his essay,
309
earnestly solicits him to
publish a method of learning,
his problem concerning a
man born blind,
desires him to write against
Malebranche's enthusiasm, 316
353. and against the notion of
the world's eternity,
316
his objection against deny-
ing the craving of children, 319
his ingenious method of
teaching children to read, 320
doubts concerning Mr.
Locke's judgment of a man's
being punished for a fault com-
mitted when drunk,
329
approves of Mr. Locke's
explication of this matter, 333
- his opinion of the difference
made by the law, between a
drunken and frantic man, 334
-highly approves Mr. Locke's
new explication of man's liberty,
left Mr. Locke a token of
remembrance,by his last will, 469
(Dr.Thomas), his high opi-
nion of Dr. Sydenham's judg
ment in medicine,
his opinion of Dr. Morton's
treatise on fevers,
his great value for Mr.
Locke's book of education, 466
his Letter to Mr. Locke,
concerning his great loss, by the
death of his brother, 469
Music, much time should not be
ordinarily spent in it,
intreats Mr. Locke, to let NATURAL philosophy, not ad-
his remarks on Dr. Bentley's
sermons atMr.Boyle's lecture,388
vanced into a science, 185, &c,
how a good acquaintance
with it may be best attained, ibid.
READING, how children should
be brought to it, 143, &c.
how it should be improved,
when learned,
ibid. &c.
Reasoning, should be familiarly
used with children,
69
Recreations, necessary for children,
98, &c.
how to be managed, ibid.
the advantage of child-
ren's being allowed it freely,
ibid.
Reputation, children should be ear-
ly enured to have a regard to it,
41, &c.
Reverence towards parents, to be
early fixed in children, 91
Rewards, children should not be
encouraged by such as please the
SAUNTERING (or listless care
lessness), how to be prevented,
119, &c.
Self-denial, children should be
enured to it betimes,
36
Sergeant, a popish priest, his ab-
surd way of writing against Mr.
Locke's essay,
439
Shame, children should early be
taught to be affected with it, 43
Short-hand (writing) very useful,
Sleep, how it is to be indulged or
restrained, in children, 20, &c.
Species, Mr. Locke's notion of it
explained,
Spirits (good ones), their nature
should be sought out, before that
of bodies, 182.-The reason of
this, 183.-The knowledge of
them is best learned from the
bible,
ibid.
Spirits (or goblins), children should
be carefully kept from ill im-
pressions concerning them, 129
State, an happy one, in this world,
is having a sound mind in a sound
body,
6
Stomach, of some, by constant use,
set like a larum,
16
Stool, going to it regularly, how to
be procured, 23, &c. Vid. Cos-
tiveness.
Strait-laced, the ill effects of child-
ren's being so,
Synge (Mr. Edward), author of the
gentleman's religion, 370
his letter to Dr. Quayl, about
distinguishing a cube, &c. by
one born blind,
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