Volume 2

Life of John Locke / by H. R. Fox Bourne.

  • Bourne, H. R. Fox (Henry Richard Fox), 1837-1909.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Life of John Locke / by H. R. Fox Bourne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    lioness that had been killed by the intense coldness of the winter.^ He had made Guenellon’s acquaintance six or seven years before in Paris ; and this friendship, which seems to have been kept up by letter in the interval, helped him to make many new friends among the doctors, men of letters and theologians in the busy centre of Hutch intelligence and learning as well as of Hutch commerce. Of these new friends, the most important of all, as far as Locke was concerned, at any rate, was Philip vanXimborch. They met first at the gathering of learned men to see the honess cut up. “ When .Mr. Locke heard from Hr. Guenellon,”-Limborch wrote twenty years later, ‘‘ that I was professor ' of theology among the remonstrants, he introduced himself to me, and we afterwards had many conversations about religion, in which he acknowledged that he had long attributed to the remonstrants doctrines very different from those which they held, and now that he understood what they really were, he was surprised to find how closely they agreed with many of his own opinions.” ^ That Locke should till now have been ignorant of the doctrines of the remonstrants is hardly credible, seeing that several of his own friends had for some time past been in occasional correspondence with Limborch and others of their number. Nearly eighty years before those doctrines had been in part propounded by Arminius, who was made professor of theology at Leyden in 1604; and soon after that date they began to stir up much angry discussion throughout ^ MSS. in the Hemonstrants' Libyary; Limborcli to Lady Masliam, [13—] 24 March, 1704-5. 2 Ibid.