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Locke Frederick W.ABAA

The Quest for the Holy Grail; a literary Study of a Thirteenth-Century French Romance

Locke J.ames W.ABAA

Autograph Letter Signed Jamaica Plain Massachusetts March 15 1836 to his sister Mary Louisa Locke New Ipswich New Hampshire

30825quarto two pages plus stamp-less address leaf in very good clean condition. Locke writes: "â€¦ in case I get any money for I am distressingly short just now â€¦ I have provided myself with a ticket for the Roxbury Lyceum course of lectures which began last evening. Introductory by Mr. Webster on popular education. It was a very good one but the views were not sound. He attributed the general increase of popular knowledge to the application of scienceâ€¦ and to general use of labor saving machines or rather as he called them Labordoing machines which by doing up the work afford much time for the improvement of the mind. He then went on to state that the more of these things the better and advocate the encouragement of monopolies and corporations for the purpose of carrying on all sorts of Business manufactures and machinery operations â€“ Now that is just the trouble with his whig principles. The poor man forgot to mention that in England the land of monopolies and of corporations and of capital and of Laboring machines the poorer laboring classes are in a far less agreeable situation than the same are with us. How ignorant and degraded are they in comparison to ours. Poor man he forgot that in the land where his favorite system is in the fullest operation there its effect which sounds so well in theory in practice has a most unfavorable effect. Webster knows better than to stick so closely to the miserable English system of Political Economy He does it all to compliment the Boston peopleâ€¦" Little is known about the astute 21 year-old writer whose life was sadly short. Born in Fitzwilliam New Hampshire he came to Massachusetts to care for a farm owned by his family. Less than ten years later he died in Arkansas at age 29. As for Daniel Webster his 1836 speech at Roxbury may have been a rehearsal for an address he delivered two years later on the floor of the United States Senate in which he lauded Massachusetts as the most "highly civilized society" on earth with the greatest "equality in the condition of men" all of whom might be called "aristocrats". He also praised science for "creating millions of laborers in the form of machines all but automatic" surely one of the earliest American tribute to automation in the era of the British Luddites. books

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Locke JohnABAA

An Essay concerning Human Understanding. To which are now Added An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas on a large Sheet; A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning Personal Identity with an Appendix; A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding; Some Thought concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman; Elements of natural Philosophy; A New Method of a Common-place Book. Extracted from the Author's Works. To which is prefixed The Life of the Author

180365066Boston: Printed by David Carlisle for Thomas & Andrews Joseph Nancrede William P. & Lemuel Blake West & Greenleaf James White & Co. John West and Caleb Bingham 1803. First American from the twentieth London edition. The first American complete edition an abridged version having been published in Boston in 1794. Folding table at front. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary tree sheep red morocco labels. Rubbed spine of first volume worn upper joints cracking some chipping of spines browning and offsetting of text signatures of Chileah B. Merrick. Brown cloth open-end case. A good copy of this cornerstone of American policy. First American from the twentieth London edition. The first American complete edition an abridged version having been published in Boston in 1794. Folding table at front. 3 vols. 12mo. In 18th century America as it was the age of reason and Enlightenment the colonists needed the justification or rationalization of their disagreement and resultant actions with England citing their immutable rights as Englishmen and quoting the basic English institutions. As the "philosopher of the Enlightenment" Locke's theories and writings were seized upon by the colonists especially with Locke's "doctrine of natural rights" his theories on "life liberty and property" religious toleration and proper representation in government. His writings gave the colonist a firm foundation upon which to base many of their statements. To Locke goes much of the credit for many of the ideas forming the Virginia Declaration of Rights drafted by George Mason. Many of the other states used that constitution as a basis for their own. Locke's advocacy of a "laissez faire" economic policy was shared by Jefferson who agreed with the idea that the "government is best which governs least" Cohen "American Thought" p. 132. The conclusion reached in the "Essay" "that though knowledge must necessarily fall short of complete comprehension it can at least be 'sufficient'; enough to convince us that we are not at the mercy of pure chance and can of some extent control our own destiny" summarizes American intent and beliefs. Attig "John Locke" pp. 40-41; Boring "History of Experimental Psychology." pp. 170 ff; PMM 164 for the 1690 first edition; Roback "A History of Psychology and Psychiatry" pp. 33 ff; Shaw and Shoemaker 4533; Library Company of Philadelphia "First American Editions" 6 which quotes Franklin as describing is as "the best Book of Logick in the World" Not in Yolton Printed by David Carlisle for Thomas & Andrews, Joseph Nancrede, William P. & Lemuel Blake, West & Greenleaf, James White & Co., unknown books

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Locke JohnABAA

An Essay concerning Human Understanding. To which are now Added An Analysis of Mr. Locke's Doctrine of Ideas on a large Sheet; A Defence of Mr. Locke's Opinion concerning Personal Identity with an Appendix; A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding; Some Thought concerning Reading and Study for a Gentleman; Elements of natural Philosophy; A New Method of a Common-place Book. Extracted from the Author's Works. To which is prefixed The Life of the Author

180365067Boston: Printed by David Carlisle for Thomas & Andrews Joseph Nancrede William P. & Lemuel Blake West & Greenleaf James White & Co. John West and Caleb Bingham 1803. First American from the twentieth London edition. This is the first complete American edition an abridged version having been published in 1794. Folding table. 3 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half sheep over marbled boards. Worn volume 2 rebacked some browning and staining of text tear on title of first volume signatures of Frederick Hobbs Jr. and Frederick H. Allen on endpapers but interior sound. In a cloth and marbled paper open-end box. First American from the twentieth London edition. This is the first complete American edition an abridged version having been published in 1794. Folding table. 3 vols. 12mo. In 18th century America as it was the age of reason and Enlightenment the colonists needed the justification or rationalization of their disagreement and resultant actions with England citing their immutable rights as Englishmen and quoting the basic English institutions. As the "philosopher of the Enlightenment" Locke's theories and writings were seized upon by the colonists especially with Locke's "doctrine of natural rights" his theories on "life liberty and property" religious toleration and proper representation in government. His writings gave the colonist a firm foundation upon which to base many of their statements. To Locke goes much of the credit for many of the ideas forming the Virginia Declaration of Rights drafted by George Mason. Many of the other states used that constitution as a basis for their own. Locke's advocacy of a "laissez faire" economic policy was shared by Jefferson who agreed with the idea that the "government is best which governs least." Cohen "American Thought" p. 132. The conclusion reached in the "Essay" "that though knowledge must necessarily fall short of complete comprehension it can at least be 'sufficient'; enough to convince us that we are not at the mercy of pure chance and can of some extent control our own destiny" summarizes American intent and beliefs. Attig " John Locke" pp. 40-41; Boring "History of Experimental Psychology." pp. 170 ff; PMM 164 for first edition; Roback "A History of Psychology and Psychiatry" pp. 33 ff; Shaw and Shoemaker 4533; Library Company of Philadelphia "First American Editions" 6 which quotes Franklin as describing is as "the best Book of Logick in the World Printed by David Carlisle for Thomas & Andrews, Joseph Nancrede, William P. & Lemuel Blake, West & Greenleaf, James White & Co., unknown books

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LOCKE JohnABAA

Du gouvernement civil

169166937A Founding Document of Democracy The First of John LockeÃs Works to be Translated from His Native English LOCKE John. Du gouvernement civil ou l'on traitte de l'origine des fondemens de la nature du pouvoir et des fins des societe politiques. Traduit de l'Anglois. Amsterdam: Chez Abraham Wolfgang 1691. First edition in French of LockeÃs groundbeaking work and the first of his works to be translated from his native English. Twelvemo 5 7/16 x 3 inches; 138 x 75 mm. 12 321 1 blank pp. Title page with printerÃs woodcut device. Short marginal tears to M7 & 8 repaired and with no loss. Contemporary light salmon paper over boards rebacked at a very early date in similar paper manuscript spine lettering red speckled edges. Small number of upper blank of title and front endpaper. Housed in a quarter morocco clamshell case. Overall an excellent copy; very clean and in a contemporary binding. Originally published in 1690 as Ã«Two Treatises of GovernmentÃ. Ã¬LockeÃs anonymous text is here an anonymous translation traditionally attributed to David Mazel. Ã«One of the Huguenot pastors living in HollandÃ of the second treatise in its 1R version with the first chapter omittedÃ¬ Yolton. Ã¬The second treatise contains a plain statement of the principles of democracy. In an age and country in which the practice of democracy had just been triumphantly vindicated LockeÃs theories although anticipated to some degree by the Ã«WhigÃ tradition of political thought-Aristotle Aquinas Hooker Grotius-had all the freshness of novelty. Like Hooker Locke presupposes an original and necessary law of reason and bases the constitution of society on it rather than on the de facto existence of a government based on the actual submission of the governed to the rulers. This consent is thus a prior condition of the Ã«social contractÃ not a result of it so that the civil rulers hold their power not absolutely but conditionally; government being essentially a moral trust which lapses if the trustees fail to maintain their side of the contract. Locke was to reinforce these liberal opinions by his Letters on Tolerance and they combine with the Treatises on Government to provide a classic example of the empirical approach to the social and political economy which has remained ever since the basis of the principles of democracyÃ® PMM. Its influence on the development of French and American political though cannot be overstated. Graesse IV 243. Printing and the Mind of Man 163. Yolton Locke 46. No copies of this edition have come up at auction in the last thirty years and OCLC only located twelve copies. HBS 66937. $6000 Chez Abraham Wolfgang hardcover books

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